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Bouquet Of Dyson, A: And Other Reflections On Science And Scientists (Hardcover)
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Bouquet Of Dyson, A: And Other Reflections On Science And Scientists (Hardcover)
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'Freeman Dyson has had an extraordinary range of interests, serious
activity and influence. This is reflected in the choice of topics
in these essays ... This book is informative, very entertaining and
well up to the high standards attained previously by this
author!'Contemporary PhysicsMy friendship with Freeman Dyson goes
back over a half century. My first contact with him goes back to
the late 1950s, when I was at the Institute for Advanced Study, and
then evolved when I was a consultant at General Atomics in La
Jolla, California. Freeman was then trying to design a space ship -
the Orion - which would be propelled by atomic bombs. When I left
the Institute, Freeman and I continued our correspondence and I
saved his letters. They are written in an almost calligraphically
elegant handwriting. It is hard to see how you could make a mistake
in a mathematical computation if you wrote that clearly. The
letters show his human side and his enormous range of
knowledge.There are then two essays involving the physicist Fritz
Houtermans who was an extraordinarily colorful character. There is
a brief essay on Einstein's collaboration with a fraud. There is
even an essay on the Titius-Bode law and the new exo-planets.
Because of my enduring interest in nuclear weapons, the reader will
find essays devoted to that. There is also a bit of fiction at the
end.
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