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Being on the outside
Freeman Dyson
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| 22. Being on the outside | 1 | 1499 | 00:38 |
| 23. Pure mathematics at Cambridge: the influence of Besicovitch | 3 | 2401 | 04:16 |
| 24. Relationship with Besicovitch | 1813 | 01:42 | |
| 25. GH Hardy and JE Littlewood's lectures | 2595 | 02:13 | |
| 26. Littlewood's Tauberian theorem and Dyson's ferromagnet paper | 1805 | 03:07 | |
| 27. Other tutors at Cambridge: Dirac, Jeffreys, Eddington | 2455 | 03:10 | |
| 28. Oscar Hahn | 2 | 1654 | 02:08 |
| 29. The Hahn Family - Judaism | 1 | 1767 | 01:03 |
| 30. The walk from Cambridge to London | 1 | 1599 | 01:16 |
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[Q] In many ways you were an outsider in many things. In terms of talents, you stand aside from the majority of the boys; in terms of concern for literature, languages, politics, you were somewhat different from most of the boys.
Indeed, that's true. I mean I've almost made a profession of being in a minority. That's true in science, of course, as well. But I always feel uneasy if I happen to be joining the majority.
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020), who was born in England, moved to Cornell University after graduating from Cambridge University with a BA in Mathematics. He subsequently became a professor and worked on nuclear reactors, solid state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics and biology. He published several books and, among other honours, was awarded the Heineman Prize and the Royal Society's Hughes Medal.
Title: Being on the outside
Listeners: Sam Schweber
Silvan Sam Schweber is the Koret Professor of the History of Ideas and Professor of Physics at Brandeis University, and a Faculty Associate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of a history of the development of quantum electro mechanics, "QED and the men who made it", and has recently completed a biography of Hans Bethe and the history of nuclear weapons development, "In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist" (Princeton University Press, 2000).
Tags: talent, literature, language, majority, minority, outsider, science
Duration: 39 seconds
Date story recorded: June 1998
Date story went live: 24 January 2008
