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

• VerfasserIn: Moyal, Ann, 1926-; Moyal, J. E.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Moyal, J. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra, ATC : : ANU E Press,, 2006.; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 212 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

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...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• chapter 1. Boyhood
• chapter 2. The making of a scientific maverick
• chapter 3. Battle with a legend
• chapter 4. The widening circle
• chapter 5. Antipodean winds
• chapter 6. Argonne National Laboratory
• chapter 7. Macquarie University
• chapter 8. 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 by J. E. Moyal
• Index.