Opening book details…
Can I read Maker of Patterns : an Autobiography Through Letters on EtoBox?
Maker of Patterns : an Autobiography Through Letters by Dyson, Freeman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Maker of Patterns : an Autobiography Through Letters about?
Both Recalling His Life Story And Recounting Many Of The Major Advances In Twentieth-century Science, A Renowned Physicist Shares His Autobiography Through Letters. While Recognizing That Quantum Mechanics Demands Serious Attention, Albert Einstein In 1926 Admonished Fellow Physicist Max Born That The Theory Does Not Bring Us Closer To The Secrets Of The Old One. Aware That There Are Deep Mysteries That Nature Intends To Keep For Herself, Freeman Dyson, The 94-year-old Theoretical Physicist, Has Nonetheless Chronicled The Stories Of Those Who Were Engaged In Solving Some Of The Most Challenging Quandaries Of Twentieth-century Physics. Written Between 1940 And The Early 1980s, These Letters To Relatives Form An Historic Account Of Modern Science And Its Greatest Players, Including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, And Hans Bethe. Whether Reflecting On The Horrors Of World War Ii, The Moral Dilemmas Of Nuclear Development, The Challenges Of The Space Program, Or The Considerable Demands Of Raising Six Children, Dyson Offers A Firsthand Account Of One Of The Greatest Periods Of Scientific Discovery Of Our Modern Age-- Great Minds Around The Billiard Table -- War
Who reads Maker of Patterns : an Autobiography Through Letters?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dyson, Freeman
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780871403872
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Memoir, Physics
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (131 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by Dyson, Freeman
Browse all works by Dyson, Freeman
Similar books
- Einstein and the Quantum : The Quest of the Valiant Swabian — A. Douglas Stone (2015)
- Autobiography of an Androgyne — Earl Lind
- My World Line : An Informal Autobiography — Foreword by Stanislaw M. Ulam (1970)
- Colleagues in Genius : Out of My Later Years, Scientific Autobiography, and Nuclear Physics : the Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words — Albert Einstein; Max Planck; W. Heisenberg (2019)
- An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey — Peter A. Levine (2024)
- Picture Maker : an Autobiography — Snyder, Peter Etril (SIGNED) (1997)