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Circle of influence

18 Apr 2018
This article first appeared in the April 2018 issue of Physics World

Andrew Robinson reviews Exact Thinking in Demented Times: the Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science by Karl Sigmund

Albert Einstein in 1954 with Kurt Gödel
Philosophers in exile: Albert Einstein in 1954 with Kurt Gödel, probably the most influential member of the Vienna Circle. (Photograph by Richard Arens, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives)
The founder of the Vienna Circle – a polymathic and influential group of intellectuals dedicated t

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Andrew Robinson is the author of Einstein: a Hundred Years of Relativity and The Last Man Who Knew Everything, a biography of Thomas Young, andrew@andrew-robinson.org

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