Hello Twitter! Can you provide your favourite examples of people describing science as a form of play? (Interviews, quotes, etc.) There are many, but I'm curious about ones I have not heard. Thank you!
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https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/14/how-einstein-thought-combinatorial-creativity/ … (I thought you might have gotten the term from the letter, actually! But I guess not.)
Point (A) bothered me a bit when I first read it (I guess I was 14 or 15). A decade later and I couldn't imagine doing physics any other way than how Einstein described it.
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It's not about science, exactly, but I learnt a lot from
@cgingold's thesis on play design: https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1806122688.html?FMT=ABS …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Nicholas Metropolis's delightful account of the beginnings of the Monte Carlo method, complete with a couple Stan Ulam jokes and the FERMIAC (mechanical brownian motion machine) pdf file: https://web.archive.org/web/20181001062425/https://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00326866.pdf …
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That's great!
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