A x B ≠ B x A
David Kaiser: Paul Dirac, 26 February 2009
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
by Graham Farmelo.
Faber, 539 pp., £22.50, January 2009,978 0 571 22278 0 Show More
by Graham Farmelo.
Faber, 539 pp., £22.50, January 2009,
“... elevated to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge – once held by the equally precocious Isaac Newton. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with Schrödinger, and remains one of the youngest recipients. Though he was by no means finished as a physicist by this point – he continued to produce important, intriguing work in quantum theory ... ”