Month: February 2021

In this day one year ago, Freeman Dyson died at age 96. A brilliant mathematician and theoretical physicist, he gave a major contribution to quantum electrodynamics while being still a young research fellow. He was tutored by Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, but he

Some time ago I was invited through my Springer editor to an event for the International Festival of Science, which takes place every year in Genova, Italy. The theme of the soiree was something entertaining about “scientists making mistakes”. The room was full for