Pushing the boundaries : a conversation with Freeman Dyson / Open Agenda Publishing.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • [Toronto, Ontario] : Open Agenda Publishing, [2014]
  • ©2014
Description
1 streaming video file (1 hr.) : digital, sound, color + 1 PDF + 1 podcast.

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Available Online

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Publisher
Interviewee
Interviewer
Editor
Library of Congress genre(s)
Series
Ideas Roadshow
Summary note
Freeman Dyson looks back on his simultaneously transformative careers in theoretical physics, mathematics, biology, rocket ship design, nuclear disarmament and writing.
Notes
Includes MP3 podcast of conversation.
Creation/​Production credits
Editor, V. Paul Colbourne.
Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
Host, Howard Burton.
Language note
Closed captioned.
Contents
  • Debating exceptionalism
  • Literary Contrarian and scientific pragmatist
  • Against reductionism
  • Dark energy and quasi-crystals in Siberia
  • The origins of life
  • Space travel
  • Religion
  • Reflections.
Other title(s)
Ideas Roadshow.
OCLC
892845836
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