Archive for December, 2013
‘Beauty as method’ collection of Dirac papers published in ItalyThe 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.
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 yearThe 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’.