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Ideas Roadshow Collections: Conversations About Physics, Volume 2 by Howard Burton Burton (author) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes five carefully edited in-depth conversations with Freeman Dyson, Jenny Nelson, Claudia de Rham, Lee Smolin and Jill Tarter. A detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books is included. Each individual book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES - A CONVERSATION WITH FORMER MATHEMATICAL PHYSICIST AND WRITER FREEMAN DYSON (1923-2020). Freeman Dyson was one of the most celebrated polymaths of our age. He had his academic home for more than 60 years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has reshaped thinking in fields from math to astrophysics to medicine, while pondering nuclear-propelled spaceships designed to transport human colonists to distant planets. During this wide-ranging conversation Dyson looks back on his simultaneously transformative careers in theoretical physics, mathematics, biology, rocket ship design, nuclear disarmament and writing. II. HARNESSING THE SUN - A CONVERSATION WITH JENNY NELSON, PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AND HEAD OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TEAM AT THE GRANTHAM INSTITUTE AT IMP

Who reads Ideas Roadshow Collections: Conversations About Physics, Volume 2?

Author

Howard Burton Burton (author)

Publisher

Open Agenda Publishing inc.

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781771701921

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Astronomy, Physics