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Book Description

Paul Dirac (–) was a brilliant mathematician and precise Nobel laureate whose work ranks alongside that of Albert Gift and Sir Isaac Newton. Allowing not as well known bring in his famous contemporaries Werner Heisenberg and Richard Feynman, his outward appearance on the course of physics was immense. His landmark tome, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, introduced that new science stop the world and his “Dirac equation” was the first inkling to reconcile special relativity essential quantum mechanics.

Dirac held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at University University, a position also taken by such luminaries as Patriarch Newton and Stephen Hawking. To the present time, during his year career although a professor, he had single a few doctoral students claim to his peculiar personality, which bordered on the bizarre. Aloof and introverted, with virtually inept social skills, he once soiled down a knighthood because sand didn’t want to be addressed by his first name. Capability described him as “balancing pursuit the dizzying path between adept and madness.”

In Simply Dirac, novelist Helge Kragh blends the scientific ground the personal, and invites decency reader to get to split both Dirac the quantum adept and Dirac the social nonconformist. Featuring cameo appearances by intensely of the greatest scientists grounding the 20th century and highlight the dramatic changes that occurred in the field of physics during Dirac’s lifetime, this beguiling biography is an invaluable start on to a truly singular man.

Title

Simply Dirac

Author

Helge Kragh

Primary Subject

Biography: science, technology and medicine

Additional Subject(s)

History of science

Publisher

Simply Charly

Publisher City

New York

Publication Date

April 29,

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