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505 0 a| 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?.;

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Birds and frogs : selected papers, 1990-2014 / Freeman J Dyson, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton.

Author/creator	Dyson, Freeman J.
Other author	Dyson, Freeman J.
Format	Book
Publication	New Jersey : World Scientific, 2015.
Description	vi, 368 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects	Field theory (Physics) Quantum electrodynamics. Gravitation. Number theory. Biology.

Uniform title	Works. Selections. 2015
Contents	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?.
General note	Follows author's Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary (Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, 1996).
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2014042306
ISBN	9789814602853 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	981460285X (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9789814602860 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	9814602868 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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