Mathematician:Petr Beckmann

Mathematician
Czech-born professor of electrical engineering who became a well-known advocate of libertarianism and nuclear power.

Later in his life he disputed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and other accepted theories in modern physics.

Nationality
Czech

History

 * Born: November 13, 1924 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
 * Died: August 3, 1993 in Boulder, Colorado

Publications

 * 1967: Probability in Communication Engineering
 * 1968: Elements of Applied Probability Theory
 * 1968: Depolarization of Electromagnetic Waves
 * 1969: Whispered Anecdotes: Humor from Behind the Iron Curtain
 * 1970:
 * 1972: The Structure of Language: A New Approach
 * 1973: Eco-hysterics & the Technophobes
 * 1973: Orthogonal Polynomials for Engineers and Physicists
 * 1976: Elementary Queuing Theory and Telephone Traffic
 * 1977: The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear
 * 1980: Hammer and Tickle: Clandestine Laughter in the Soviet Empire
 * 1987: Einstein Plus Two
 * 1987: Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from Rough Surfaces
 * 1989: Musical Musings