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Author Moyal, Ann, 1926-2019.

Title Maverick mathematician : the life and science of J.E. Moyal / by Ann Moyal.

Imprint Canberra, A.T.C. : ANU E Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages)
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Note Includes index.
Contents Boyhood -- The Making of a Scientific Maverick -- Battle With a Legend -- The Widening Circle -- Antipodean Winds -- Argonne National Laboratory -- Macquarie University -- The Reflective Years -- Appendix I. Publications of J.E. Moyal -- Appendix II. P.A.M. Dirac -- J.E. Moyal: Correspondence, 1944-1946. Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, MS 45/3/ -- Appendix III. Quantum Mechanics as a Statistical Theory / J.E. Moyal.
Summary "J.E. Moyal has been pronounced 'one of Australia's most remarkable thinkers'. Yet, he was, essentially, a scientific maverick. Educated in a modest high school in Tel Aviv, he took himself to France to train as an engineer, statistician and mathematician and escaped to England as France fell. It was from outside academia that he entered into communication with the 'high priest' of British theoretical physics, P.A.M. Dirac, challenging him with the idea of a statistical basis of quantum mechanics. Their correspondence forms the core of this book and opens up an important and hitherto unknown chapter for physicists, mathematicians and historians of science. Moyal's classic paper, 'A statistical basis for quantum mechanics', also reproduced here in full, has come to underlie an explosion of research and to underpin an array of major technological developments."--Publisher's description
Note Print version record.
Language English.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Moyal, J. E. (José Enrique), 1910-1998.
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984 -- Correspondence.
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmhVjgFFGHMm33cyH63Qq
Mathematicians -- Australia -- Biography.
Aerospace engineers -- Australia -- Biography.
Quantum theory -- Mathematics.
Mathematics.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
Mathematics -- General.
Mathématiciens -- Australie -- Biographies.
Ingénieurs en aérospatiale -- Australie -- Biographies.
Théorie quantique -- Mathématiques.
Biography and True Stories.
Biography: general.
Biography: science, technology and medicine Mod Biography: science, technology and medicine.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
Aerospace engineers
Mathematicians
Quantum theory -- Mathematics
Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM
Indexed Term Mathematics
Quantum theory
Aerospace engineers
Biography
Australia
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal correspondence
Added Author Moyal, J. E. Quantum mechanics as a statistical theory.
Added Title Life and science of J.E. Moyal
Other Form: Print version: Moyal, Ann, 1926- Maverick mathematician. Canberra, A.T.C. : ANU E Press, ©2006 1920942580 (OCoLC)271105905
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