Selected Papers Of Freeman Dyson With Commentary
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Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary
Author: Freeman J. Dyson
language: en
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Release Date: 1996
This book offers a unique compilation of papers in mathematics and physics from Freeman Dyson's 50 years of activity and research. These are the papers that Dyson considers most worthy of preserving, and many of them are classics. The papers are accompanied by commentary explaining the context from which they originated and the subsequent history of the problems that either were solved or left unsolved. This collection offers a connected narrative of the developments in mathematics and physics in which the author was involved, beginning with his professional life as a student of G. H. Hardy.
Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary
This collection is a compilation of Freeman Dyson's papers in mathematics and physics from over 50 years of activity and research. There is an accompanying commentary that explains the context from which the papers originated and the subsequent history of the problems that were either solved or left unsolved.
Birds and Frogs
Author: Freeman J Dyson
language: en
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Release Date: 2015-03-25
This book is a sequel to the volume of selected papers of Dyson up to 1990 that was published by the American Mathematical Society in 1996. The present edition comprises a collection of the most interesting writings of Freeman Dyson, all personally selected by the author, from the period 1990–2014. The five sections start off with an Introduction, followed by Talks about Science, Memoirs, Politics and History, and some Technical Papers. The most noteworthy is a lecture entitled Birds and Frogs to the American Mathematical Society that describes two kinds of mathematicians with examples from real life. Other invaluable contributions include an important tribute to C. N. Yang written for his retirement banquet at Stony Brook University, as well as a historical account of the Operational Research at RAF Bomber Command in World War II provocatively titled A Failure of Intelligence. The final section carries the open-ended question of whether any conceivable experiment could detect single gravitons to provide direct evidence of the quantization of gravity — Is a Graviton Detectable? Various possible graviton-detectors are examined. This invaluable compilation contains unpublished lectures, and surveys many topics in science, mathematics, history and politics, in which Freeman Dyson has been so active and well respected around the world.