"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"--
"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"--
David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at MIT. He is the author of several award-winning books on the history of science, including Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World, and the editor of Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision (MIT Press). His work has been featured in Science, Nature, the New York Times, and the New Yorker.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1 David Kaiser 1 The Secret Club of Heretics and Rebels 21 Amanda Gefter 2 Calculation and Reckoning: Navigating Science, War, and Guilt 47 William Thomas 3 The First Apprentice 71 David Kaiser 4 A Frog among Birds: Dyson as a Mathematical Physicist 105 Robbert Dijkgraaf 5 Single Stage to Saturn: Project Orion, 1957-1965 143 George Dyson 6 Dyson, Warfare, and the Jasons 177 Ann Finkbeiner 7 A Warm Little Pond: Dyson and the Origins of Life 203 Ashutosh Jogalekar 8 The Cosmic Seer 233 Caleb Scharf 9 A Bouquet of Dyson 257 Jeremy Bernstein Coda: Not the End 271 Esther Dyson Acknowledgments 279 About the Authors 281 Index 285
Introduction 1 David Kaiser 1 The Secret Club of Heretics and Rebels 21 Amanda Gefter 2 Calculation and Reckoning: Navigating Science, War, and Guilt 47 William Thomas 3 The First Apprentice 71 David Kaiser 4 A Frog among Birds: Dyson as a Mathematical Physicist 105 Robbert Dijkgraaf 5 Single Stage to Saturn: Project Orion, 1957-1965 143 George Dyson 6 Dyson, Warfare, and the Jasons 177 Ann Finkbeiner 7 A Warm Little Pond: Dyson and the Origins of Life 203 Ashutosh Jogalekar 8 The Cosmic Seer 233 Caleb Scharf 9 A Bouquet of Dyson 257 Jeremy Bernstein Coda: Not the End 271 Esther Dyson Acknowledgments 279 About the Authors 281 Index 285
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