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The author keeps referring to him as Dr. Dyson when he was proud of never having taken a Ph.D and explicitly hating the Ph.D system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzC1IRYN_Ps&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
I emailed the author on that very point, and she said the decision to use "Dr Dyson" was an informed choice made by an editor and was out of her hands.
The author keeps referring to him as Dr. Dyson when he was proud of never having taken a Ph.D and explicitly hating the Ph.D system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzC1IRYN_Ps&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
I emailed the author on that very point, and she said the decision to use "Dr Dyson" was an informed choice made by an editor and was out of her hands.
[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/freeman-d...
I enjoy reading about Dyson and reading his writings. Among the greats he seems the most human. Von Neumann was always this martian with an IQ of 500, Einstein the quintessential absent-minded professor, Feynman the trickster genius, Landau the force if nature in life and research. But stories about Dyson always radiate human warmth. Very inspiring.
He fell in love with math reading Bell's "Men of Mathematics"
I enjoy reading about Dyson and reading his writings. Among the greats he seems the most human. Von Neumann was always this martian with an IQ of 500, Einstein the quintessential absent-minded professor, Feynman the trickster genius, Landau the force if nature in life and research. But stories about Dyson always radiate human warmth. Very inspiring.
I actually think Schwinger is (one of) the most human , by which I mean flawed. He was famous - from Gell-Mann to Dyson to [insert famous field theorist] - for being deliberately incomprehensible when explaining himself, very stubborn when it came to new ideas (to an almost ridiculous extent if Murray Gell-Mann was being serious) and almost literally obsessed with mathematical beauty over matching experiment. Feynman…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually think Schwinger is (one of) the most human , by which I mean flawed. He was famous - from Gell-Mann to Dyson to [insert famous field theorist] - for being deliberately incomprehensible when explaining himself, very stubborn when it came to new ideas (to an almost ridiculous extent if Murray Gell-Mann was being serious) and almost literally obsessed with mathematical beauty over matching experiment. Feynman…
https://youtu.be/UKbp85zpdcY?t=270 Freeman Dyson speaking to the candidness of Schwinger in private one-on-one discussions.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually think Schwinger is (one of) the most human , by which I mean flawed. He was famous - from Gell-Mann to Dyson to [insert famous field theorist] - for being deliberately incomprehensible when explaining himself, very stubborn when it came to new ideas (to an almost ridiculous extent if Murray Gell-Mann was being serious) and almost literally obsessed with mathematical beauty over matching experiment. Feynman…
https://youtu.be/UKbp85zpdcY?t=270 Freeman Dyson speaking to the candidness of Schwinger in private one-on-one discussions.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzDA6mtmKQE...