Screen LibraryA bouquet of Dyson : and other reflections on science and scientists /
"My 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...
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World Scientific,
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| Publisher Address: | New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"My 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 |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 175 pages : illustrations (some color), color portraits ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9789813231924 (hardback) : 9813231920 (hardback) 9789813238282 (paperback) 9813238283 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | QC16 |
| CLC: | K837.126.11 |
| Call Number: | K837.126.11/D998B |
| Contents: | People -- The Pope -- Pontecorvo -- Twenty one -- Houtermans -- Charlotte. |