UID:
almafu_9961267974902883
Format:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-262-37139-1
,
0-262-37140-5
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. That Secret Club of Heretics and Rebels -- 2. Calculation and Reckoning: Navigating Science, War, and Guilt -- 3. The First Apprentice -- 4. A Frog among Birds: Dyson as a Mathematical Physicist -- 5. Single Stage to Saturn: Project Orion, 1957-1965 -- 6. Dyson, Warfare, and the Jasons -- 7. A Warm Little Pond: Dyson and the Origins of Life -- 8. The Cosmic Seer -- 9. A Bouquet of Dyson -- Coda: Not the End -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kaiser, David Well, Doc, You're In : MIT Press,c2022 ISBN 9780262047340
Language:
English
