Archive for December, 2013

‘Beauty as method’ collection of Dirac papers published in Italy

The Italian physicist Vincenzo Barone has published La Bellezza Come Metodo, a handsome collection of papers by Paul Dirac on the great value of mathematical beauty as a lodestar to theoretical physicists.

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'Beauty as method'

Beauty as Method

 

Graham’s biography of Dirac is now available in an Italian translation: L’uomo più strano del mondo

‘Churchill’s Bomb’ selected as a science book of the year

The Observer’s science editor Robin McKie has selected Graham’s new book as one of his science books of the year, commenting that it offers ‘intriguing insights into the pursuit of science then and now’.

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