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Author Moyal, Ann, 1926-2019

Title Maverick mathematician : the life and science of J.E. Moyal / by Ann Moyal
Published Canberra, A.T.C. : ANU E Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages)
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
Analysis Mathematics
Quantum theory
Aerospace engineers
Biography
Australia
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 880-01 Moyal, J. E. (José Enrique), 1910-1998.
880-01/(Q Moyal, J. E. (Jose⁺ѓ Enrique), 1910-1998
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984 -- Correspondence
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Mathematicians -- Australia -- Biography
Aerospace engineers -- Australia -- Biography
Quantum theory -- Mathematics
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
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Moyal, J. E. Quantum mechanics as a statistical theory
ISBN 9781920942595
1920942599
Other Titles Life and science of J.E. Moyal