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"Just what a fantastic entrée in to the life of Paul Dirac and the unique world of Quantum Mechanics, of which he was one of the fantastic pioneers. With its cast of a few of the most important scientists of the present day era, this is both an entertaining and an enlightening read." - Michael White, best-selling author of 39 literature including Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984) was an excellent mathematician and a 1933 Nobel laureate whose work rates alongside that of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. Although not as well-known as his famous contemporaries Werner Heisenberg and Richard Feynman, his impact on the span of physics was enormous. His landmark book, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, unveiled that new research to the world and his "Dirac formula" was the first theory to reconcile special relativity and quantum mechanics. Dirac performed the Lucasian Seat of Mathematics at Cambridge University or college, a position also occupied by such luminaries as Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking. Yet, during his 40-year job as a professor, he had just a few doctoral students anticipated to his peculiar personality, which bordered on the bizarre. Taciturn and introverted, with almost no communal skills, he once rejected a knighthood because he didn't desire to be resolved by his first name. Einstein referred to him as "balancing on the dizzying way between genius and madness." In Simply Dirac, writer Helge Kragh blends the scientific and the personal and invites the listener to access know both Dirac the quantum genius and Dirac the communal misfit. Featuring cameo appearances by a few of the greatest scientists of the 20th century and highlighting the remarkable changes that took place in the field of physics during Dirac's life time, this interesting biography can be an invaluable introduction to a singular man.
