Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters

Dyson, Freeman

ISBN 10: 163149547X / ISBN 13: 9781631495472

Published by Liveright Publishing, New York, 2018

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8vo, 400 pp.

Seller Inventory # 098448

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 163149547X
• ISBN 13: 9781631495472
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science & Engineering

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Synopsis

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 of modern science and its greatest players, including Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Hans Bethe. Chronicling the stories of those who were engaged in solving some of the most challenging quandaries of twentieth-century physics, Dyson lends acute insight and profound observations to a life’s work spent chasing what Einstein called those “deep mysteries that Nature intends to keep for herself.” Whether reflecting on the drama of World War II, the moral dilemmas of nuclear development, the challenges of the space program, or the demands of raising six children, Dyson’s annotated letters reveal the voice of one “more creative than almost anyone else of his generation” (Kip Thorne). An illuminating work in these trying times, Maker of Patterns is an eyewitness account of the scientific discoveries that define our modern age. Frontispiece

About the Author

Professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Freeman Dyson is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician. The author of Disturbing the Universe, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.