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The Strangest Man

Graham Farmelo

What made Paul Dirac, a silent genius who predicted antimatter by pure reason, one of the strangest figures in the history of science?

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Graham Farmelo

Why read it

  • You will learn to tell bottom up from top down scientific thinking, using Darwin and Dirac as the two models
  • You will understand how a sense that nature's laws must be mathematically beautiful can lead to a prediction no experiment had hinted at
  • You will question how far a loveless childhood explains a famous scientist's silence and reserve

Who it is for

  • A physics enthusiast curious about the person behind quantum mechanics
  • A theorist who trusts mathematical elegance more than experiment
  • Someone wondering how a harsh childhood shapes adult reserve

Contents

  1. Prologue
  2. Notes-Prologue
  3. Notes - Chapter one
  4. Notes - Chapter two
  5. Notes - Chapter three
  6. Notes - Chapter four
  7. Notes - Chapter five
  8. Notes - Chapter six
  9. Notes - Chapter Seven
  10. Note - Chapter eight
  11. Note - Chapter nine
  12. Note - Chapter ten
  13. Note - Chapter eleven
  14. Note - Chapter twelve
  15. Notes - Chapter thirteen
  16. Notes - Chapter fourteen
  17. Notes - Chapter fifteen
  18. Notes - Chapter sixteen
  19. Notes - Chapter seventeen
  20. Notes - Chapter eighteen
  21. Notes - Chapter nineteen
  22. Notes - Chapter twenty
  23. Notes - Chapter twenty-one
  24. Notes - Chapter twenty-two
  25. Notes - Chapter twenty-three
  26. Notes - Chapter twenty-four
  27. Notes - Chapter twenty-five
  28. Notes - Chapter twenty-six
  29. Notes - Chapter twenty-seven
  30. Notes - Chapter twenty-eight
  31. Notes - Chapter twenty-nine
  32. Notes - Chapter thirty
  33. Notes - Chapter thirty-one
  34. Chapter thirty-one
  35. Abbreviations in Notes

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