Birds and frogs : selected papers, 1990-2014 /
Dyson, Freeman J.,author.
Dyson, Freeman J.Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary.
Follows author's Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary (Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, 1996).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1. Introduction and commentary. Introduction -- Section 2. Talks about Science. 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? -- Section 3. Memoirs. 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 -- Section 4. Politics and History. 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 -- Section 5. Technical Papers. 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?
Field theory (Physics)
Quantum electrodynamics.
Gravitation.
Number theory.
Biology.
Biology.
Field theory (Physics)
Gravitation.
Number theory.
Quantum electrodynamics.