02026nam 2200397 450 991071998460332120230704064403.0(CKB)5710000000123762(NjHacI)995710000000123762(EXLCZ)99571000000012376220230704d2006 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMaverick Mathematician The Life and Science of J.E. Moyal /Ann Moyal and J. E. MoyalCanberra, Australia :ANU Press,2006.1 online resource (vi, 194 pages)"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.Maverick Mathematician Aerospace engineeringMathematiciansQuantum theoryMathematicsAerospace engineering.Mathematicians.Quantum theoryMathematics.629.1Moyal Ann802243Moyal J. E.NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910719984603321Maverick Mathematician1803497UNINA