![]() What are the similarities, what are the differences? An experienced broadcaster, lecturer and biographer, he is noted for being able to write engagingly about complex social and intellectual dramas, weaving the personal with the scientific to produce page-turners that read like novels. ![]() He is fascinated by the nature of creative thinking and, in particular, in creativity in art (on the one hand) and science (on the other). ![]() MILLER is emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London. The program is being sponsored by the Physics program, the History of Science program, the Art History program and the Science & the Arts program.ĪRTHUR I. To fully understand what happened involves coming to grips with wide-ranging questions such as: Are there similarities in creativity between artists and scientists? What do artists and scientists mean by ‘aesthetics’ and ‘beauty’? Can we unravel creativity at its highest level? How – and why? This fascinating story involves their often turbulent personal lives the high drama of their struggles to achieve new ideas in the face of opposition from contemporaries and the unlikely sources for their creative leaps, ignored by everyone else. ![]() The Graduate Center, Wednesday, November 28, 6:30 PMĪlmost simultaneously, in the first decade of the 20th century Albert Einstein discovered relativity and Pablo Picasso cubism. The art of science and the science of art Arthur I. ![]()
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