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"Well, Doc, you're in" : Freeman Dyson's journey through the universe / edited by David Kaiser.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dyson, Freeman J.
- Physicists--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Mathematicians--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Mathematical physics--United States--History.
- Mathematical physics.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A comprehensive and engaging book about renowned mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson, curated and edited by MIT physicist and historian of science David Kaiser, and with contributions from notable science communicators, including Dyson's children"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. That Secret Club of Heretics and Rebels / Amanda Gefter
- 2. Calculation and Reckoning: Navigating Science, War, and Guilt / William Thomas
- 3. The First Apprentice / David Kaiser
- 4. A Frog among Birds: Dyson as a Mathematical Physicist / Robbert Dijkgraaf
- 5. Single Stage to Saturn: Project Orion, 1957
- 1965 / George Dyson
- 6. Dyson, Warfare, and the Jasons / Ann Finkbeiner
- 7. A Warm Little Pond: Dyson and the Origins of Life / Ashutosh Jogalekar
- 8. The Cosmic Seer / Caleb Scharf
- 9. A Bouquet of Dyson / Jeremy Bernstein.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262047340
- 0262047349
- OCLC:
- 1294919124
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