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Petr Beckmann (November 13, 1924 – August 3, 1993) was a professor of electrical engineering and advocate of libertarianism and nuclear power who disputed Albert Einstein 's theory of relativity and other accepted theories in modern physics.
Dec 26, 2022 · Petr Beckmann (November 13, 1924 – August 3, 1993) was a professor of electrical engineering who became a well-known advocate of libertarianism and nuclear power. Later in his life he challenged Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and other accepted theories in modern physics.
Beckmann was a prolific scientific author who wrote several electrical engineering textbooks and non-technical works, founded Golem Press, which published most of his books, and published his own monthly newsletter, Access to Energy.
- Petr Beckmann
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Petr Beckmann (November 13, 1924 – August 3, 1993) was a professor of electrical engineering and advocate of libertarianism and nuclear power who disputed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and other accepted theories in modern physics.
Petr Beckmann was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1924. Until 1963, he worked as a research scientist for the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, when he was invited as a Visiting Professor to the University of Colorado, where he decided to stay permanently as professor of electrical engineering.
Czechoslovak squadron of the British Royal Air Force. He obtained two war medals, one of them for personal bravery in fight. After the war he was discharged from the army and returned to Czechoslovakia, graduated from the Technical University in Prague in 1949, obtained a M.Sc. degree, and than he joined the military research institute.
In this lucid, wide-ranging book, Petr Beckmann traces the perilous journey of pi- the little number with huge implications for advanced mathematical functions- from its Babylonian creation to...
