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The first of five sections introduces how the various items came to be written, while the second includes Talks about Science. The most substantial is a lecture to the American Mathematical Society - Birds and Frogs - describing two kinds of mathematician, with examples from real life. An important tribute to Yang Chen Ning written for his retirement banquet at Stony Brook University can be found in the third, which is then followed by a section on Politics and History, the most substantial contribution being A Failure of Intelligence, a historical account of the failure of the Operational Research at RAF Bomber Command in World War II. The last and final section carries a recent article - Is a Graviton Detectable? - discussing the question whether any conceivable experiment could detect single gravitons, to provide direct evidence of the quantization of gravity. The question is still open. Various possible graviton-detectors are examined, and they all fail for one reason or another.
This invaluable compilation, that also contains some unpublished lectures, surveys many subjects, in science, mathematics, history and politics, in which Freeman Dyson has been active and so well respected around the world.
The first of five sections introduces how the various items came to be written, while the second includes Talks about Science. The most substantial is a lecture to the American Mathematical Society - Birds and Frogs - describing two kinds of mathematician, with examples from real life. An important tribute to Yang Chen Ning written for his retirement banquet at Stony Brook University can be found in the third, which is then followed by a section on Politics and History, the most substantial contribution being A Failure of Intelligence, a historical account of the failure of the Operational Research at RAF Bomber Command in World War II. The last and final section carries a recent article - Is a Graviton Detectable? - discussing the question whether any conceivable experiment could detect single gravitons, to provide direct evidence of the quantization of gravity. The question is still open. Various possible graviton-detectors are examined, and they all fail for one reason or another.
This invaluable compilation, that also contains some unpublished lectures, surveys many subjects, in science, mathematics, history and politics, in which Freeman Dyson has been active and so well respected around the world.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
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Fachbereich: | Astronomie |
Genre: | Importe, Physik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
ISBN-13: | 9789814602853 |
ISBN-10: | 981460285X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Freeman J Dyson |
Hersteller: | World Scientific |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 250 x 175 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | Freeman J Dyson |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.03.2015 |
Gewicht: | 0,827 kg |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Astronomie |
Genre: | Importe, Physik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
ISBN-13: | 9789814602853 |
ISBN-10: | 981460285X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Freeman J Dyson |
Hersteller: | World Scientific |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 250 x 175 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | Freeman J Dyson |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.03.2015 |
Gewicht: | 0,827 kg |