Talk:Leonard Mlodinow

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I find the statement that "Euclid's Window" was well received a complete misdirection. In fact, Robert Langlands (defined by Wikipedia as "one of the most significant mathematicians of the 20th century" -- an accurate characterization) begins his review (available at www.ams.org/notices/200205/fea-langlands.pdf) of the book thus:

This is a shallow book on deep matters, about which the author knows next to nothing.

(the rest of the review is even more scathing). So Mlodinow as a scinece popularizer may sit well with some, but certainly not with others. I changed the adjective to "mixed" and added a pointer to the review.

Review comments

Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:

Template:Infobox Scientist should be added
Photograph should be added from a source with a free license
Basic biographical information required, including precise date and place of birth, positions held (with dates), any family details
Article needs expanding and should emphasise reasons for notability of subject
Article should reorganised to give a clearer division between research work and writing
Information on research should be expanded and references required
References should be added, preferably in the inline format; some of the external links should be converted to references

Espresso Addict 01:29, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

External links not working

In External Links, at least the following links do not work:

About Mlodinow's Film "Beyond the Horizon"

PhysicsWeb Review of "Feynman's Rainbow"

Library Cog Review of "Feynman's Rainbow"

JFistere (talk) 23:32, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

I suspect a pronunciation listing would be helpful to many people - but I'm afraid I don't know how Mlodinow is pronounced. Any chance someone who knows can put it in? EPAstor (talk) 18:07, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can't do pronunciation notation but it's "mu-lod-in-OAVE." Every letter is pronounced, the w is pronounced as a v. The first o is short as in "pop," the second o is long as in "poke" Wikiditm (talk) 16:19, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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