Freeman Dyson: 9 books

A lifetime of candid reflections from physicist Freeman Dyson, “an acute observer of personality and human foibles” (New York Times Book Review). Written between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic portrait...

Readers of Freeman Dyson’s previous books, Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, and Infinite in All Directions, have discovered for themselves what Dyson reveals here: that he was a writer long before he became a distinguished scientist.   The aim of this new book, as Dyson says, is to open...

Estos ensayos, surgidos de la pluma de un extraordinario científico y magnífico escritor, iluminan tanto la historia de la ciencia como los polémicos debates actuales sobre ciencia, ética y religión. Desde Galileo hasta los astrónomos aficionados de la actualidad, los científicos siempre...

From Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In their pursuit of nature’s truths, they are guided as much by imagination as by reason, and...

In this sequel to The Scientist as Rebel (2006), Freeman Dyson—whom The Times of London calls “one of the world’s most original minds”—celebrates openness to unconventional ideas and “the spirit of joyful dreaming” in which he believes that science should be pursued. Throughout these...

Der legendäre Physik-Nobelpreisträger Richard P. Feynman tritt in diesem Buch als vielseitige und komplexe Persönlichkeit auf: als leidenschaftlicher Wissenschaftler, aufrichtiger Denker, genialer Lehrer, als liebenswürdiger Mensch und nicht zuletzt als Spaßmacher. Es ist ein Genuss, Feynman...

This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy,...

Considerada por el propio autor como una continuación de El científico rebelde, Sueños de tierra y cielo es una atrevida compilación de ensayos a favor de las ideas heterodoxas y el espíritu soñador que deben acompañar a toda investigación científica. Las perspectivas de Freeman Dyson...

This book is a sequel to the volume of selected papers of Dyson up to 1990 that was published by the American Mathematical Society in 1996. The present edition comprises a collection of the most interesting writings of Freeman Dyson, all personally selected by the author, from the period 1990–2014. The...