Perturbando O Universo

Spanning the years from WWII, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, thru his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, his early friendship with Richard Feynman his postgraduate work with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson has composed an autobiography unlike any other. Dyson evocatively conveys the thrill of a deep engagement with the world--be it as a scientist, citizen, student or parent. Detailing a unique career not limited to his groundbreaking work in physics, he discusses his interest in minimizing loss of life in war, in disarmament even in thought experiments on the expansion of our frontiers into the galaxy.