Paul Dirac
In Our Time: Science
The Importance of Dirac's Theoretical Physics
When he wrote that book, it was published in 1930, quantum mechanics was still a work in progress. It stimulated the next generation of physicists from Feynman, Julian Schwinger and Senator Tomanaga. That was their bible. So it was tremendously influential. When you were ready to first you couldn't understand it. Can you still not understand it when you read it? No, I would say I could understand it now. But it was... I'm going to use the word deep again. It brings out and constructs things in a very deep way. What's beautiful as well is actually how wordy it is. In our time with Melvin Bragg is produced by Simon Tillits
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