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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

by Graham Farmelo (2009)

I was lucky. I went to good schools, I had excellent teachers. I was in the right place at the right time. Paul Dirac Opportunity and luck bestow their benisons upon a once-in-a-generation genius, mathematical mystic, and one of the greatest theoretical physicists to have walked the planet. You…

On Unorthodox Marx

He leads the existence of a real bohemian intellectual. Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he likes to get drunk. Though he is often idle for days on end, he will work day and night with tireless endurance when he has a great deal of work to do. He has no fi…