Table of Contents

The cheapest way to make the world richer A silver spoon in Budapest, 1903-14 At the Lutheran Gymnasium, 1914-21 An undergraduate with lion's claws, 1921-26 Rigor becomes more relaxed, 500 B. C.-A. D. 1931 The quantum leap, 1926-32 Sturm und Drang, marriage, emigration, 1927-31 Depression at Princeton, 1931-37 The calculating exploder, 1937-43 Los Alamos to Trinity, 1943-45 In the domain of economics The computers at Philadelphia, 1944-46 The computers from Princeton, 1946-52 And then the H-bomb With astonishing influence, 1950-56 Acknowledgments Permissions acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Macrae on Macrae.