Books

Short works

Books : reviews

Freeman J. Dyson.
Disturbing the Universe.
Harper and Row. 1979

autobiography

Freeman J. Dyson.
Weapons and Hope.
Harper and Row. 1984

Freeman J. Dyson.
Infinite in All Directions.
Pelican. 1988

(read but not reviewed)

Includes the essay How Will It All End?, about the fate of life in an open expanding universe: things get ever colder and more diffuse, but life can go on forever, although at a slower and slower rate, and moreover needs only a finite, and amazingly modest, amount of energy to do so.

Freeman J. Dyson.
From Eros to Gaia.
Penguin. 1992

Contents

• Sir Phillip Roberts's Erolunar Collision. 1933
• On Being the Right Size: Reflections on the Ecology of Scientific Projects. 1988
• Six Cautionary Tales for Scientists. 1988
• Telescopes and Accelerators. 1988
• Sixty Years of Space Science, 1958--2018. 1988
• The Importance of Being Unpredictable. 1990
• Strategic Bombing in World War 2 and Today: Has Anything Changed?. 1990
• Field Theory. 1953
• Innovation in Physics. 1958
• Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman Awarded Nobel Prize for Physics. 1965
• Energy in the Universe. 1971
• Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere and the Biosphere. 1990
p132. on the accuracy of certain values of annual flow in the carbon budget:
A---Well measured (error ± 20 percent)
B---Roughly known (error ± factor of 2)
C---Highly uncertain (sign may be wrong)
• The Future of Physics. 1970
• Unfashionable Pursuits. 1981
• Astronomy in a Private Sphere. 1984
• To Teach or Not to Teach. 1990
• Pugwash 1962. 1962
• Death of a Project. 1965
• Human Consequences of the Exploration of Space. 1968
• The Hidden Costs of Saying No. 1974
• Pupin. 1960
• Oppenheimer. 1980
• Heims. 1980
• Manin and Forman. 1982
• Kennan. 1982
• Oppenheimer Again. 1989
• Morson and Tolstoy. 1989
• Letter from Armenia. 1971
• Brittle Silence. 1981
• Helen Dukas. 1982
• Paul Dirac. 1986
• Beacons. 1988
• Kennan Again. 1988
• Feynman in 1948. 1989
• The Face of Gaia. 1989

Freeman J. Dyson.
Origins of Life: 2nd edn.
CUP. 1999

(1st edition published 1985)

Freeman J. Dyson.
The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: tools of scientific revolutions.
New York Public Library/OUP. 1999

Freeman J. Dyson.
The Scientist as Rebel.
New York Review of Books. 2006