The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (62 page)

nonlinear dynamical systems,
322
–23

Norlander, Torsten,
39

Noyce, Robert,
306
,
310

Nui, Weihua,
94
–95

Nymphéas
(Monet),
18

Ochse, Richard,
110

oil curse,
90

“On Nature” (Goethe),
265

“On the Unhappiness of Being Greek” (Dimou),
49

Oppezzo, Marily,
22

opportunity,
92
,
104
,
130
,
167
,
200
,
228
,
270
,
309

opportunity cost,
47
–48,
160

Oration on the Dignity of Man, The
(Pico della Mirandola),
132
–33

“Ornament and Crime” (Loos),
282

ostracism,
59
–60

Oulipo,
90

Oyster Club,
174
,
177

Packard, Dave,
290
,
293

painting,
23
,
38
,
55
,
109
,
116
–17,
121
,
142
,
166
,
178
,
209
,
239
,
272
,
283

China and,
66
–67,
82
,
90

Florence and,
119
–20,
314

Greece and,
28
,
35
,
60

Leonardo and,
99
,
112
–14,
125
,
314

Medicis and,
103
,
106

Michelangelo and,
120
,
231

with music,
235
–36

Renaissance and,
289
,
314

Su and,
74
,
76
–77,
89

Tagore and,
199
,
204

Verrocchio and,
112
–13

Palmieri, Matteo,
103

Palo Alto, Calif.,
289
–91,
294
,
298
,
303

Palo Alto Times,
291

Pankejeff, Sergei,
268

Pantheon,
127

paradox of plenty,
90

Paris,
18
,
69
,
107
,
109
,
155
,
173
,
204
–5,
211
,
218
–19,
251
,
261
,
284
–85,
295
,
322

Parthenon,
23
–24,
29
,
43
,
226
,
237

Pauling, Linus,
324

Peloponnesian Wars,
29
,
53

penicillin,
208

Pericles,
29
,
34
,
36
,
44
,
53
,
55
,
63
,
69
,
73
,
130
,
173
,
326

Perry–Smith, Jill,
304

Persians,
130
,
156
,
181

Persian Wars,
29
,
31
,
319

Peste, Le
(Zumba),
129

phase transition,
279
–80,
309

Phidias,
60

philosophy,
8
,
55
,
94
,
99
,
105
,
117
,
126
,
157
,
161
,
181
,
200
,
202
,
236
,
281
,
300

Athens and,
27
,
66
,
135
–36,
194
,
212

and burdens of history,
49
–50

Edinburgh and,
173
,
178

German and,
257
–58

Greece and,
14
,
20
–21,
23
,
28
–29,
32
–34,
36
–37,
47
–50,
56
,
61
,
136
,
168
,
289

Hume and,
144
,
153
–56,
172
,
178
,
183
,
309

Scotland and,
142
,
155
–56

Smith and,
172
,
178

Vienna and,
218
,
252
,
269
,
277
,
279
,
282

physics,
1
,
42
–43,
48
,
75
,
104
,
126
–27,
146
,
152
–53,
160
,
165
,
175
,
266
,
295
,
315

Bose and,
188
,
204
–6

Einstein and,
152
,
180
,
204
,
238
,
269

Vienna and,
252
,
269
,
279
–81

women and,
241

Picasso, Pablo,
35
,
54
,
76
,
111
,
116
,
178
,
222
,
231
,
236
,
273

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni,
132
–33

Piraeus,
53
,
56

Pisa,
115
,
123
–24

Pitt, Robert,
51
–53,
56

Pitti, Luca,
115

Pitti Palace,
115
–18,
129
,
221

Pixar,
226
,
293
,
297

pizza,
102
,
108
,
136
–37

plagiarism,
54
–55,
62

Plath, Sylvia,
138

Plato (ancient philosopher),
19
,
22
,
36
–37,
40
,
54
,
56
,
98
,
134
–35,
162

Athens and,
20
,
61
–62

and burdens of history,
49
–50

Silicon Valley and,
312
–13

on usury,
104
–5

Plato (modern philosopher),
48
–49

Playfair, John,
162
–63

playfulness,
88
–89

poetry,
2
,
5
,
86
,
90
,
102
,
139
,
163
,
172
,
181
,
198
,
236
,
249
,
272
,
312

Athens and,
31
–32,
36
,
43
,
45
,
54
–55