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The exact sciences have an immense weight and influence in our culture. At the heart of their effectiveness lies the mathematical equation. The difficult form of the great equations - particularly those of modern physics - has often acted as an obstacle to any understanding and they have come to embody the mystery and terror of modern science. This volume brings together well-known scientists, historians and writers about science as each seeks to unpack an equation and explain how it was arrived

The Strangest Man is a biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo, and published by Faber and Faber. The book won the Biography Award at the 2009 Costa Book Awards, and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
The title is based on a comment by physicist Niels Bohr four years before his death that of all the scientists who had visited his institute, Dirac was "the strangest man".

Paul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einstein's most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. In 1933 he became the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Dirac's personality, like his achievements, is legendary. The Strangest Man uses previously undiscovered archives to reveal the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind.

Работая над своей новой книгой "Вселенная говорит языком чисел", Грэм Фармело побеседовал с выдающимися учеными современности, среди которых Майкл Атья, Роджер Пенроуз, Мартин Риз, Эдвард Виттен и многие другие. Кроме того, на ее страницах оживают и древнегреческие ученые, и Ньютон, и Эйнштейн, и Дирак, а также освещается открытие теории струн.
Это яркий закулисный отчет о расцветающих отношениях между математикой и физикой и об исследованиях, которые могут изменить наше понимание реальности.
Книга будет интересна всем, кто хочет знать, как физики, говоря словами Стивена Хокинга, "познают разум Бога".