Author:
Dyson, Freeman J.
Imprint:New Jersey : World Scientific, 2015.
Descriptionvi, 368 pages ; 25 cm
Note:Follows author's Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary (Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, 1996).
Note:The origins of life in the universe -- when we were kids -- Birds and frogs -- The current state of physics -- A walk through Johnny von Neumann's garden -- Are brains analog or digital? -- Homage to George Green: How physics looked in the 1940s -- James Bradley, the inventor of modern science -- A conservative revolutionary -- A meeting with Enrico Fermi -- Edward Teller, 1908-2003 -- John Archibald Wheeler -- Chandrasekhar's role in twentieth century science -- Nicholas Kemmer -- Science in trouble -- Progress in religion -- Tolstoy and Napoleon: Two styles in history, education, science and ethics -- Of children and grandchildren -- A failure of intelligence: Operational research at RAF Bomber Command, 1943-1945 -- The individual or the group? A question that arises in science, law and language -- Nukes and genomes -- Noah's Ark eggs and viviparous plants -- The Coulomb fluid and the fifth Painlevé transcendent -- The Oklo bound on the time variation of the fine-structure constant revisited -- The sixth fermat number and palindromic continued fractions -- Thought-experiments---In honor of John Wheeler -- Opacity bounds -- Iterated prisoner's dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent -- Partitions and the grand canonical ensemble -- Is a graviton detectable?
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
