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Freeman J. Dyson – Bibliography (As of May 2013) Freeman J. Dyson – Bibliography (as of May 2013) “Disturbing the Universe,” book commissioned by the Science Book Program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and published by Harper and Row, New York and London, 1979. Parts of the book published in The New Yorker, August 6, 13, 20, and in the Observer, October 28, 1979. "Weapons and Hope," book published by Harper & Row, New York and London, 1984. Parts of the book published in The New Yorker, February 1984. "Origins of Life," New revised edition published by Cambridge University Press, September 1999. (Original edition published 1986) "Infinite in All Directions," (New York, Cornelia and Michael Bessie Books, 1988), Gifford Lectures given at the University of Aberdeen in 1985. Paperback edition in Pelican Books (1989), Penguin Books (1990). "From Eros to Gaia," published by Pantheon Books, 1992. "Imagined Worlds" an expanded version of the 1985 Harvard-Jerusalem lectures, published by Harvard University Press, April 1997. "The Sun, the Genome and the Internet," published by Oxford University Press, April 1999. "The Scientist as Rebel," a collection of book reviews published by the New York Review of Books, 2006. "A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe," a collection of lectures published by University of Virginia Press, July 2007. Technical Books by Dyson: "Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics," a collection of reprints by various authors, with three introductory lectures given by Dyson at New York University in 1964, published by W.A. Benjamin, 1966. "Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary," a collection of technical papers selected by Dyson, with commentary telling how they came to be written, published by the American Mathematical Society, 1996. "Advanced Quantum Mechanics," transcribed by David Derbes, the notes for a course of lectures given by Dyson in 1951 at Cornell University, published by World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007 (second edition 2011). “Detailed Bibliography” 1943 “Three Identities in Combinatory Analysis,” Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 18, 1943, pp. 35-39. “On the Order of Magnitude of the Partial Quotients of a Continued Fraction,” Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 18, 1943, pp. 40-43. “A Note on Kurtosis,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, CVI, Part IV, 1943, pp. 360-361. 1944 “A Proof that Every Equation has a Root,” Eureka (Cambridge), 8, 1944 pp. 3-4. “Some Guesses in the Theory of Partitions,” Eureka (Cambridge), 8, 1944, pp. 10-15. “Note on the Comparison of Loss Rates,” Operational Research Section Headquarters, R.A.F. Bomber Command, 1943-1945. 1945 “A Theorem on the Densities of Sets of Integers,” Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 20, 1945, pp. 8-14. 1946 “The Problem of the Pennies,” Mathematical Gazette (London), XXX, No. 29, Oct. 1946, pp. 231-234. 1947 “On Simultaneous Diophantine Approximations,” Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, 49, 1947, pp. 409-420. “The Approximation to Algebraic Numbers by Rationals,” Acta Mathematica (Uppsala), 89, 1947, pp. 225-240. 1948 “A Theorem in Algebraic Topology,” Annals of Mathematics, 49, No. 1, 1948, pp. 75-81. “On the Product of Four Non-Homogeneous Linear Forms,” Annals of Mathematics, 49, No. 1, 1948, pp. 82-109. “The Interactions of Nucleons with Meson Fields,” The Physical Review, 73, No. 8, 1948, pp. 929-930. “The Electromagnetic Shift of Energy Levels,” The Physical Review, 73, No. 6, 1948, pp. 617-626. 1949 “The Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger and Feynman,” The Physical Review, 75,, No. 3, 1949, pp. 486-502. (Also included in Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics, Julian Schwinger, editor. New York: Dover, 1958). “The S-Matrix in Quantum Electrodynamics,” The Physical Review, 75, No. 11, 1949, pp. 1736-1755. (Also included in Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics, Julian Schwinger, editor, New York: Dover, 1958). 1950 “Longitudinal Photons in Quantum Electrodynamics,“ The Physical Review, 77, No. 3, 1950, p. 420. Notes of a course of lectures given by Professor Robert Serber at the Summer Physics Symposium of the University of Michigan, June 28-July 17, 1950; “Recent Developments in High Energy Physics.” Notes taken from an unfinished manuscript of Professor Julian Schwinger, “On Gauge Invariance and Vacuum Polarization.” [undated]. 1951 “Heisenberg Operators in Quantum Electrodynamics.” The Physical Review, 82, No. 3, 1951, pp. 428-439. “Heisenberg Operators in Quantum Electrodynamics, II,” The Physical Review, 82, No. 3, 1951, pp. 608-627. “The Schrodinger Equation in Quantum Electrodynamics,” The Physical Review, 83, No. 6, 1951, pp. 1207-1216. “The Renormalization Method in Quantum Electrodynamics,” Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, 207, 1951, pp. 395-401. “Continuous Functions Defined on Spheres,”Annals of Mathematics, 54, No. 3, 1951, pp. 534-536. 1952 “Quantum Electrodynamics,” Physics Today, 5, No. 9, September 1952, pp. 6-9. “Divergence of Perturbation Theory in Quantum Electrodynamics,” The Physical Review, 85, No. 4, 1952, pp. 631-632. “Fourth-Order Vacuum Polarization” [with M. Baranger and E. E. Salpeter], The Physical Review, 88, No. 3, 1952, p. 680. “Lecture Notes on Advanced Quantum Mechanics.” Cornell Laboratory of Nuclear Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1952, 1963 (Also reprinted in Stockholm [n.d., n.p.]). Published by World Scientific, 2007 (second edition 2011). 1953 “Field Theory” Scientific American, 188, No. 4, April 1953, pp. 57-64. “The Use of the Tamm-Dancoff Method in Field Theory,” The Physical Review, 90, No. 5, 1953, p. 994. “Mass-Renormalization with the Tamm-Dancoff Method,” The Physical Review, 91, No. 2, 1953, pp. 421-422. “Fourier Transforms of Distribution Functions,” Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 5, 1953, pp. 554-558. “The Wave Function of a Relativistic System,” The Physical Review, 91, No. 6, 1953, pp. 1543-1550. (Also reprinted by the Japanese Physical Society in Series of Selected Papers in Physics, 67, 19, pp. 95-102.) “The Dynamics of a Disordered Linear Chain,” The Physical Review, 92, No. 6, 1953, pp. 1331-1338. (Also reprinted by the Japanese Physical Society in Series of Selected Papers in Physics, 119, 19, pp. 61-68.) 1954 “What is Heat?” Scientific American, 191, No. 3, September 1954, pp. 58-63. Review of Sir Edmund Whittaker's A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, II, for Scientific American, 190, No. 3, March, 1954, pp. 92-94. “The Rate of Growth of Functions Defined by Dirichlet Series,” Annals of Mathematics, 60, No. 3, 1954, pp. 437-446. “Meson-Nucleon Scattering in the Tamm-Dancoff Approximation,” [with E. E. Salpeter, S. S. Schweber, M. K. Sundaresan, W. M. Visscher, and H. A. Bethe], The Physical Review, 95, No. 6, 1954, pp. 1644-1658. Supplement to “Advanced Quantum Mechanics,” lecture notes mimeographed at L'École d'Été de Physique Théorique, Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, France, [under auspices of L'Université de Grenoble] August, 1954. Included in appendices of the second edition of the book “Advanced Quantum Mechanics” (2011). “On the Relation between Scattering Matrix Elements and Cross -sections.” Appendix to “Advanced Quantum Mechanics” lecture notes, 1954 Les Houches Summer School. Included in appendices of the second edition of the book “Advanced Quantum Mechanics” (2011). 1955 “Electron Spin Resonance Absorption in Metals. II, Theory of Electron Diffusion and the Skin Effect,” The Physical Review, 98, 1955, pp. 349-359. “Scattering of Mesons by a Fixed Scatterer,” The Physical Review, 100, No. 1, 1955, pp. 344-348. “Renormalization in the New Tamm-Dancoff Theory of Meson-Nucleon Scattering,” [with R. H. Dalitz] The Physical Review, 99, No. 1, 1955, pp. 301- 314. “Anisotropy of Bremsstrahlung and Pair Production in Single Crystals,” [with H. Uberall] The Physical Review, 99, No. 2, 1955, pp. 604-605. “Second Maximum in the Negative Pion Scattering Cross Section,” The Physical Review, 99, No. 3, 1955, p. 1037. (Also reprinted by the Japanese Physical Society in Series of Selected Papers in Physics, 84, 1955, pp. 154-155.) 1956 “Two-Group Treatment of the Warm Neutron Effect.” Unpublished paper written at General Atomic, San Diego, in connection with the TRIGA reactor, 1956. “General Theory of Spin-Wave Interactions,” The Physical Review, 102, No. 5, 1956, pp. 1217-1230. “Thermodynamic Behavior of an Ideal Ferromagnet,” The Physical Review, 102, No. 5, 1956, pp. 1230-1244. “Obituary of Hermann Weyl,” Nature, 177, 1956, pp. 457-458. “Science and Freedom,” Baltimore Morning Sun, June 26, 1956. p. 14. “Low's Scattering Equation for the Charged and Neutral Scalar Theories,” [with L. Castillejo and R. H. Dalitz] The Physical Review, 101, No. 1, 1956, pp. 453-458. (Also reprinted by the Japanese Physical Society in Series of Selected Papers in Physics, 77, 1956, pp. 103-108.) 1957 “Meaning of the Solutions of Low's Scattering Equation,” The Physical Review, 106, No. 1, 1957, pp. 157-159. “Longitudinal Polarization of Bremsstrahlung and Pair Production at Relativistic Energies,” [with Kirk W. McVoy] The Physical Review, 106, No. 6, 1957, pp. 1360. “Persistence of Longitudinal Polarization in an Electromagnetic Cascade,” [with Kirk McVoy] unpublished preprint, 1957. “Ground State Energy of a Hard-Sphere Gas,” The Physical Review, 106, No. 1, 1957, pp. 20-26. “Polarization in Cascades,” unpublished preprint, 1957. 1958 “Innovation in Physics,” Scientific American, 199, No. 3, September 1958, pp. 74- 82. “Connection between Local Commutativity and Regularity of Wightman
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