You can pick up three recent books on the subject, from an idealist, a realist and a theorist.
Mr. Shannon, who passed away about a decade ago, became a theorist who is considered a father of the digital age.
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Unsocialized but erudite, a moralist, a theorist, a swamp-bred crank, Laroche fascinates the melancholy Orlean, who feels her life lacks a consuming passion.
"He's unusual, because he's highly respected as a theorist, but he's also working directly in the field, " observes Eric Maskin, an economist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.
To prove he is not just a heartless theorist, he has helped to found a charter school in Miami, catering to inner-city children.
Mr Muldoon may be a conspiracy theorist of language all rhymers are while Mr Ashbery wears a benign grin, but both wander the same streets.
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Stanley Fish, a literary theorist, has suggested that the entire history of Western thought could be written as a history of the debate between Socrates and the sophists, namely that between philosophy and rhetoric.
He appears to be a loner and conspiracy theorist of a vaguely right-wing variety.
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But Mr Bartley and his team produced five volumes on it, a conspiracy theorist's delight.
In naming me a game theorist, dear Sir, you bestow upon me more honor than I deserve.
The 45-year-old Newsom, a Democrat who is now California's lieutenant governor, is more than a government theorist, however.
Mr Obama is plainly neither unpatriotic nor a conspiracy theorist, and has denounced his former pastor's outbursts vigorously.
In the second sits a less congruous figure: Mark de Rond, a management theorist from Cambridge's Judge Business School.
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He was, however, very close to his father, Vincenzo Galilei, a lute player and, more important, a musical theorist.
His life has all the look and sound of a fully respectable intellectual activity, rather like, one feels uneasily, the life of a string theorist today.
Against this background, Mr Magueijo's attempt to portray himself as a brilliant maverick, a successor to Richard Feynman, or a rival theorist to the great Einstein, is simply laughable.
Papastavrou claimed he had been unable to redeem his investment after Bushido's two main chiefs resigned, leaving the fund managed by Yvonne Morabito, a financial theorist of sorts who once wrote Dollar Signs: An Astrological Guide to Personal Finance.
But inside, an entirely different aesthetic prevailed: Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman were positioned beside Minimalist sculptures by the sisters' father, Tony Smith, who was both a celebrated art theorist and something of a homebody.
If someone had predicted six months ago that the self-immolation of a Tunisian merchant would lead to a domino effect of established Middle Eastern regimes collapsing in Tunisia and Egypt, and wobbling in Bahrain, Jordan, Syria and Yemen, we would have written him off as a conspiracy theorist.
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Prohibiting bitcoin is the opposite of what a rational game theorist would conclude.
"The president is unchecked in a way the other branches are not, " said Michael McConnell, a conservative legal theorist at Stanford Law School.
If he were a prizewinning political theorist, Krugman might raise an issue at once more serious and more grave than the one he chooses to belabor.
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The National Center for Constitutional Studies, founded by W. Cleon Skousen, a rogue Mormon, John Bircher, and all-purpose conspiracy theorist, prints a stapled paper version, the dimensions of a datebook, thirty cents if you order a gross.
Around that time he was also reading A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, an urban theorist who pushed for a new architecture that served various aspects of human behavior, rejecting the arbitrariness of present-day offerings.
For a second opinion I turned to Andrew Smithers, a well-known investment theorist in London.
The system could thus provide astronomers with invaluable information about planet-disc interaction, suggests Alan Boss, a leading planet-formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
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Even the kind of conspiracy theorist who wears a tinfoil hat to protect his brain from being zapped by Kremlin mind-rays would have to accept that this is a coincidence.
"I discovered I was more interested in talking about how science affects people, about the emotional side", than "becoming an expert in something maybe 10 people cared about", said Ben Lillie, who was a high-energy particle theorist before he founded The Story Collider.
Names applied to this something else include quintessence, k-essence, phantom energy and a bunch more, depending on which theorist you ask and what properties you think likely.
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