Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, his early friendship with Richard Feynman, and his postgraduate work with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson has composed an autobiography unlike any other. Dyson evocatively conveys the thrill of a deep engagement with the world-be it as scientist, citizen, student, or parent. Detailing a unique career not limited to his groundbreaking work in physics, Dyson discusses his interest in minimizing loss of life in war, in disarmament, and even in thought experiments on the expansion of our frontiers into the galaxies.

Disturbing the Universe

Science & Math

Freeman J. Dyson

History & Philosophy

Basic Books Inc.,U.S.

A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (Page-Barbour Lectures)

University of Virginia Press

<p>Dyson discusses the grave problem of nuclear weapons, defining poetry as the whole range of literary reaction to war and weapons. He believes that human cultural patterns are more durable than weapons technology or the political arrangements in which weapons have become embedded and, thus, that hope is reasonable. Aron juxtaposes the concepts of arms control and peace research and analyzes the origins and present state of the armaments debate in an attempt to create a basis from which to deduce principles of action. He asks two crucial questions: Are hostile states able to come to an essential agreement about the relationship between their forces, and Have we learned the causes of war and the means for preventing it? Robinson reviews the steps by which the world has come to the brink of a nuclear holocaust. She considers international economic and military complicity, national egoism, and high-level failure of morals in shaping a plea for a sane retreat from the edge of the abyss.</p>

Values at War: Selected Tanner Lectures on the Nuclear Crisis

Politics & Social Sciences

Raymond, Aron

Joan Robinson

Philosophy

University of Utah Press

Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics: Lecture-Note and Reprint Volume

Physics

W.A. Benjamin, Inc.

El sol, el genoma e internet

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