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Sto caricando le informazioni... Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Lettersdi Freeman Dyson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. "The second half of a life is usually less interesting than the first half" (p xvi) -- a most poignant thought, I'd say. So Dyson (1923 - ) covers only the first half of his adult life here, and he lets the frequent letters he wrote to his family do most of the work. They limn the extraordinary range of his activities, his travels, his interactions with famous people, his important contributions within physics and in other areas. Except for the innumerable "which"es that cry out to be "that"s, they make for fine, enlightening reading. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Both recalling his life story and recounting many of the major advances in twentieth-century science, a renowned physicist shares his autobiography through letters. While recognizing that quantum mechanics "demands serious attention," Albert Einstein in 1926 admonished fellow physicist Max Born that the theory "does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One." Aware that "there are deep mysteries that Nature intends to keep for herself," Freeman Dyson, the 94-year-old theoretical physicist, has nonetheless chronicled the stories of those who were engaged in solving some of the most challenging quandaries of twentieth-century physics. Written between 1940 and the early 1980s, these letters to relatives form an historic account of modern science and its greatest players, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Hans Bethe. Whether reflecting on the horrors of World War II, the moral dilemmas of nuclear development, the challenges of the space program, or the considerable demands of raising six children, Dyson offers a firsthand account of one of the greatest periods of scientific discovery of our modern age"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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