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4 - Computational adventures in cosmology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2009

By
Nick Gnedin
Edited by
Alan Stern
Nick Gnedin
Affiliation:
University of Colorado
Alan Stern
Affiliation:
Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado
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Nick Gnedin was raised in Russia. He received his Master's degree from the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Polytechnical Institute, and his PhD at Princeton. For two years he worked as a Research Assistant at the Astrophysical Department of the Ioffe Institute for Physics and Technology (Leningrad, USSR). In May 1991 he was invited to Princeton University, and has remained in the United States ever since. Most recently, Nick has been a professor in the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department of the University of Colorado. He and his wife Marianna are raising their daughter Nina in the Rocky Mountains while Nick teaches and continues to pursue his research love—numerical simulations of the evolution of the Universe since its early youth.

The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed what can be fathomed, and quietly to reverence what is unfathomable.

Goethe

Ever since an animal looked up to the night sky, wondered at the brilliance of stars and the vast depth of space, and in the act of doing so became a human being, the Universe beyond our immediate locale was always a subject of human curiosity.

What are we in this world, and how do we relate to the immense emptiness around us that we call space? How did the Universe come to existence?

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Our Universe
The Thrill of Extragalactic Exploration
 , pp. 55 - 70
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2001

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