Freeman J. Dyson – Bibliography (as of February 2013)

Freeman J. Dyson – Bibliography (as of February 2013)
“Disturbing the Universe,” book commissioned by the Science Book Program
of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and published by Harper and Row, New York
and London, 1979. Parts of the book published in The New Yorker, August 6, 13,
20, and in the Observer, October 28, 1979.
"Weapons and Hope," book published by Harper & Row, New York and London,
1984. Parts of the book published in The New Yorker, February 1984.
"Origins of Life," New revised edition published by Cambridge University Press,
September 1999. (Original edition published 1986)
"Infinite in All Directions," (New York, Cornelia and Michael Bessie Books,
1988), Gifford Lectures given at the University of Aberdeen in 1985. Paperback
edition in Pelican Books (1989), Penguin Books (1990).
"From Eros to Gaia," published by Pantheon Books, 1992.
"Imagined Worlds" an expanded version of the 1985 Harvard-Jerusalem
lectures, published by Harvard University Press, April 1997.
"The Sun, the Genome and the Internet," published by Oxford University Press,
April 1999.
"The Scientist as Rebel," a collection of book reviews published by the New
York Review of Books, 2006.
"A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe," a
collection of lectures published by University of Virginia Press, July 2007.
Technical Books by Dyson:
"Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics," a collection of reprints
by various authors, with three introductory lectures given by Dyson at New York
University in 1964, published by W.A. Benjamin, 1966.
"Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary," a collection of
technical papers selected by Dyson, with commentary telling how they came to
be written, published by the American Mathematical Society, 1996.
"Advanced Quantum Mechanics," transcribed by David Derbes, the notes for a
course of lectures given by Dyson in 1951 at Cornell University, published by
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007 (second edition 2011).
“Detailed Bibliography”
1943
“Three Identities in Combinatory Analysis,” Journal of the London Mathematical
Society, 18, 1943, pp. 35-39.
“On the Order of Magnitude of the Partial Quotients of a Continued Fraction,”
Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 18, 1943, pp. 40-43.
“A Note on Kurtosis,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, CVI, Part IV, 1943,
pp. 360-361.
1944
“A Proof that Every Equation has a Root,” Eureka (Cambridge), 8, 1944 pp. 3-4.
“Some Guesses in the Theory of Partitions,” Eureka (Cambridge), 8, 1944, pp.
10-15.
“Note on the Comparison of Loss Rates,” Operational Research Section
Headquarters, R.A.F. Bomber Command, 1943-1945.
1945
“A Theorem on the Densities of Sets of Integers,” Journal of the London
Mathematical Society, 20, 1945, pp. 8-14.
1946
“The Problem of the Pennies,” Mathematical Gazette (London), XXX, No. 29,
Oct. 1946, pp. 231-234.
1947
“On Simultaneous Diophantine Approximations,” Proceedings of the London
Mathematical Society, Series 2, 49, 1947, pp. 409-420.
“The Approximation to Algebraic Numbers by Rationals,” Acta Mathematica
(Uppsala), 89, 1947, pp. 225-240.
1948
“A Theorem in Algebraic Topology,” Annals of Mathematics, 49, No. 1, 1948, pp.
75-81.
“On the Product of Four Non-Homogeneous Linear Forms,” Annals of
Mathematics, 49, No. 1, 1948, pp. 82-109.
“The Interactions of Nucleons with Meson Fields,” The Physical Review, 73, No.
8, 1948, pp. 929-930.
“The Electromagnetic Shift of Energy Levels,” The Physical Review, 73, No. 6,
1948, pp. 617-626.
1949
“The Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger and Feynman,” The Physical
Review, 75,, No. 3, 1949, pp. 486-502. (Also included in Selected Papers on
Quantum Electrodynamics, Julian Schwinger, editor. New York: Dover, 1958).
“The S-Matrix in Quantum Electrodynamics,” The Physical Review, 75, No. 11,
1949, pp. 1736-1755. (Also included in Selected Papers on Quantum
Electrodynamics, Julian Schwinger, editor, New York: Dover, 1958).
1950
“Longitudinal Photons in Quantum Electrodynamics,“ The Physical Review, 77,
No. 3, 1950, p. 420.
Notes of a course of lectures given by Professor Robert Serber at the Summer
Physics Symposium of the University of Michigan, June 28-July 17, 1950;
“Recent Developments in High Energy Physics.”
Notes taken from an unfinished manuscript of Professor Julian Schwinger, “On
Gauge Invariance and Vacuum Polarization.” [undated].
1951
“Heisenberg Operators in Quantum Electrodynamics.” The Physical Review, 82,
No. 3, 1951, pp. 428-439.
“Heisenberg Operators in Quantum Electrodynamics, II,” The Physical Review,
82, No. 3, 1951, pp. 608-627.
“The Schrodinger Equation in Quantum Electrodynamics,” The Physical Review,
83, No. 6, 1951, pp. 1207-1216.
“The Renormalization Method in Quantum Electrodynamics,” Proceedings of the
Royal Society, A, 207, 1951, pp. 395-401.
“Continuous Functions Defined on Spheres,”Annals of Mathematics, 54, No. 3,
1951, pp. 534-536.
1952
“Quantum Electrodynamics,” Physics Today, 5, No. 9, September 1952, pp. 6-9.
“Divergence of Perturbation Theory in Quantum Electrodynamics,” The Physical
Review, 85, No. 4, 1952, pp. 631-632.
“Fourth-Order Vacuum Polarization” [with M. Baranger and E. E. Salpeter], The
Physical Review, 88, No. 3, 1952, p. 680.
“Lecture Notes on Advanced Quantum Mechanics.” Cornell Laboratory of
Nuclear Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1952, 1963 (Also reprinted in
Stockholm [n.d., n.p.]). Published by World Scientific, 2007 (second edition
2011).
1953
“Field Theory” Scientific American, 188, No. 4, April 1953, pp. 57-64.
“The Use of the Tamm-Dancoff Method in Field Theory,” The Physical Review,
90, No. 5, 1953, p. 994.
“Mass-Renormalization with the Tamm-Dancoff Method,” The Physical Review,
91, No. 2, 1953, pp. 421-422.
“Fourier Transforms of Distribution Functions,” Canadian Journal of Mathematics,
5, 1953, pp. 554-558.
“The Wave Function of a Relativistic System,” The Physical Review, 91, No. 6,
1953, pp. 1543-1550. (Also reprinted by the Japanese Physical Society in Series
of Selected Papers in Physics, 67, 19, pp. 95-102.)
“The Dynamics of a Disordered Linear Chain,” The Physical Review, 92, No. 6,
1953, pp. 1331-1338. (Also reprinted by the Japanese Physical Society in Series
of Selected Papers in Physics, 119, 19, pp. 61-68.)
1954
“What is Heat?” Scientific American, 191, No. 3, September 1954, pp. 58-63.
Review of Sir Edmund Whittaker's A History of the Theories of Aether and
Electricity, II, for Scientific American, 190, No. 3, March, 1954, pp. 92-94.
“The Rate of Growth of Functions Defined by Dirichlet Series,” Annals of
Mathematics, 60, No. 3, 1954, pp. 437-446.
“Meson-Nucleon Scattering in the Tamm-Dancoff Approximation,” [with E. E.
Salpeter, S. S. Schweber, M. K. Sundaresan, W. M. Visscher, and H. A. Bethe],
The Physical Review, 95, No. 6, 1954, pp. 1644-1658.
Supplement to “Advanced Quantum Mechanics,” lecture notes mimeographed at
L'École d'Été de Physique Théorique, Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, France,
[under auspices of L'Université de Grenoble] August, 1954. Included in
appendices of the second edition of the book “Advanced Quantum Mechanics”
(2011).
“On the Relation between Scattering Matrix Elements and Cross -sections.”
Appendix to “Advanced Quantum Mechanics” lecture notes, 1954 Les Houches
Summer School. Included in appendices of the second edition of the book
“Advanced Quantum Mechanics” (2011).
1955
“Electron Spin Resonance Absorption in Metals. II, Theory of Electron Diffusion
and the Skin Effect,” The Physical Review, 98, 1955, pp. 349-359.
“Scattering of Mesons by a Fixed Scatterer,” The Physical Review, 100, No. 1,
1955, pp. 344-348.
“Renormalization in the New Tamm-Dancoff Theory of Meson-Nucleon
Scattering,” [with R. H. Dalitz] The Physical Review, 99, No. 1, 1955, pp. 301314.
“Anisotropy of Bremsstrahlung and Pair Production in Single Crystals,” [with H.
Uberall] The Physical Review, 99, No. 2, 1955, pp. 604-605.
“Second Maximum in the Negative Pion Scattering Cross Section,” The Physical
Review, 99, No. 3, 1955, p. 1037. (Also reprinted by the Japanese Physical
Society in Series of Selected Papers in Physics, 84, 1955, pp. 154-155.)
1956
“Two-Group Treatment of the Warm Neutron Effect.” Unpublished paper written
at General Atomic, San Diego, in connection with the TRIGA reactor, 1956.
“General Theory of Spin-Wave Interactions,” The Physical Review, 102, No. 5,
1956, pp. 1217-1230.
“Thermodynamic Behavior of an Ideal Ferromagnet,” The Physical Review, 102,
No. 5, 1956, pp. 1230-1244.
“Obituary of Hermann Weyl,” Nature, 177, 1956, pp. 457-458.
“Science and Freedom,” Baltimore Morning Sun, June 26, 1956. p. 14.
“Low's Scattering Equation for the Charged and Neutral Scalar Theories,” [with L.
Castillejo and R. H. Dalitz] The Physical Review, 101, No. 1, 1956, pp. 453-458.
(Also reprinted by the Japanese Physical Society in Series of Selected Papers in
Physics, 77, 1956, pp. 103-108.)
1957
“Meaning of the Solutions of Low's Scattering Equation,” The Physical Review,
106, No. 1, 1957, pp. 157-159.
“Longitudinal Polarization of Bremsstrahlung and Pair Production at Relativistic
Energies,” [with Kirk W. McVoy] The Physical Review, 106, No. 6, 1957, pp.
1360.
“Persistence of Longitudinal Polarization in an Electromagnetic Cascade,” [with
Kirk McVoy] unpublished preprint, 1957.
“Ground State Energy of a Hard-Sphere Gas,” The Physical Review, 106, No. 1,
1957, pp. 20-26.
“Polarization in Cascades,” unpublished preprint, 1957.
1958
“Innovation in Physics,” Scientific American, 199, No. 3, September 1958, pp. 7482.
“Connection between Local Commutativity and Regularity of Wightman
Functions,” The Physical Review, 110, No. 2, 1958, pp. 579-581.
“Integral Representations of Causal Commutators,” The Physical Review, 110,
No. 6, 1958, pp. 1460-1464. (Also reprinted by the Japanese Physical Society in
Series of Selected Papers in Physics, 104, 1958, pp. 27-31).
“Integral Representation of a Double Commutator,” The Physical Review, III, No.
6, 1958, pp. 1717-1718.
“Note on Maximum Opacity,” Report GAMD-469, work done for Project Orion,
General Atomic Division of General Dynamics Corporation, July 8, 1958.
1959
“Proposal for an Experiment to Measure the Life-Time of the Neutron,”
Proceedings of the Conference on Scientific Applications of Nuclear Explosions,
held July 6-8, 1959, Los Alamos, New Mexico, LAMS-2443, pp. 42-50.
“Containment of Bomb Explosions,” Proceedings of the Conference on Scientific
Applications of Nuclear Explosions, held July 6-8, 1959, Los Alamos, New
Mexico, LAMS-2443, pp. 55-60.
“The Continuous Opacity and Equations of State of Light Elements at Low
Densities,” [with Jeremy Bernstein], Report GA-848, work done for Project Orion,
General Atomic Division of General Dynamics Corporation, July 13, 1959.
1960
“Hydrostatic Instability of a Star,” unpublished preprint, 1960.
“The Future Development of Nuclear Weapons,” Foreign Affairs, April 1960, pp.
457-464. (Also reprinted in Penguin Science Survey 1961, Part 1, Arthur Garratt,
editor. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958.)
“Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation,” Science, 131, No.
3414, June 1960, pp. 1667- 1668. (Also published as chapter 11 in Interstellar
Communication , A. G. W Cameron, editor, New York: Benjamin Press, 1963.)
“Stability of an Idealized Atmosphere, II. Zeros of the Confluent Hypergeometric
Function,” The Physics of Fluids, 3, No. 2, 1960, pp. 155-157.
Preface to new edition of Michael I. Pupin's From Immigrant to Inventor, New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960.
Forward to American edition of Clement V. Durell's Readable Relativity, New
York: Harper, 1960.
“Malthusian Principles Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligences,” unpublished
preprint, 1960.
1961
“The Neutron Bomb,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, XVII, No. 7, September
1961, p. 271-271.
1962
“Statistical Theory of the Energy Levels of Complex Systems. I,” Journal of
Mathematical Physics, 3, No. 1, 1962, pp. 140-156.
“Statistical Theory of the Energy Levels of Complex Systems. II,” J. Math. Phys.,
3, No. 1, 1962, pp. 157-165.
“Statistical Theory of the Energy Levels of Complex Systems. III.” J. Math. Phys.,
3, No. 1, 1962, pp. 166-175.
“A Brownian-Motion Model for the Eigenvalues of a Random Matrix,” Journal of
Mathematical Physics, 3, No. 6, 1962, pp. 1191-1198.
“The Threefold Way. Algebraic Structure of Symmetry Groups and Ensembles in
Quantum Mechanics,” Journal of Mathematical Physics, 3, No. 6, 1962, pp.
1199-1215.
“Pugwash 1962.” Physics Today, 15, No. 11 , November 1962, pp. 24-26.
“Thoughts on Bomb Shelters,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, XVII, No. 3,
March 1962, pp. 14-15. (Also reprinted in The Atomic Age, M. Grodzins and E.
Rabinowitch, Editors. New York: Basic Books, 1963, pp. 313-316.)
1963
“Models of Total Ignorance in Quantum Mechanics,” Mathematical Models in
Physical Sciences, Stefan Drobot, Editor [Proceedings of the Conference at
University of Notre Dame, 1962] New York: Prentice-Hall, 1963, pp. 49-60.
“Statistical Theory of the Energy Levels of Complex Systems. IV,” [with Madan
Lal Mehta] J. Math. Phys., 4, No. 5 , 1963, pp. 701-712.
“Statistical Theory of the Energy Levels of Complex Systems. V,” [with Madan Lal
Mehta] J. Math. Phys., 4 , No. 5, 1963, pp. 713-719.
Appendix to Chapter 4 of “Zeros of Processes and Related Questions, Part 2,”
Time Series Analysis, M. Rosenblatt, Editor, New York: John Wiley and Sons,
1963, pp. 82-88.
“Toeplitz Determinants and Coulomb Gases,” Talk to Eastern Theoretical
Physics Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 25, 1963.
“Disarmament Through Other Eyes.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, XIX, No.
10, December 1963, pp. 37-38.
“Gravitational Machines.” [Submitted as prize essay to Gravity Foundation, April
1962] Interstellar Communication, A. G. W. Cameron, Editor, New York:
Benjamin Press, 1963, Chapter 12.
Testimony on behalf of the Federation of American Scientists before the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, hearings on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,
August 12-27, 1963, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1963, pp. 807-900.
1964
“Defense Against Ballistic Missiles.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, XX, No. 6,
June 1964, pp. 12-18.
“Problems of Defense Against Ballistic Missiles.” F.A.S. Newsletter, January,
1964.
Review of Tom Stonier's Nuclear Disaster: Disarmament and Arms Control, 2 No.
4, 1964, pp. 459-461.
“Mathematics in the Physical Sciences,” Scientific American, 211 No. 3,
September 1964, pp. 129-146.
“Approximate Symmetries in Nuclear and Particle Physics,” [three lectures given
under the Tenth Annual Lectureship in Physics at New York University,
December 10-15, 1964; notes prepared by M. E. Arons]. Included as the
Introduction to the book Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics, a
Lecture-Note and Reprint Volume (1966).
“Y=2 States in SU(6) Theory,” [with Nguyen-Huu Xuong] Physical Review
Letters, 13, No. 26, 1964, pp. 815-817.
“To J. Robert Oppenheimer on his Sixtieth Birthday” in Rev. of Mod. Phys., 36,
No. 2, 1964, pp. 507-508.
1965
“SU(6) Theory and the Antiproton-Proton Annihilation at Rest into Two Mesons,”
[with Nguyen-Huu Xuong] Physical Review Letters, 14, No. 16, 1965, pp. 654657.
“Death of a Project,” Science, 149, No. 3680, July 1965, pp. 141-144.
“Old and New Fashions in Field Theory,” Physics Today , 18, No. 6, June 1965,
pp. 21-24.
“Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman Awarded Nobel Prize for Physics,”
Science, 150, No. 3696, October 1965, ~pp. 588-589.
Review of “Quasi-Stellar Sources and Gravitational Collapse,” [Robinson, Schild
and Schucking, editors]; Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
77, No. 458, November 1965, p. 398.
“Applications of Group Theory in Particle Physics,” SIAM Review, 8, No. 1, 1966,
pp. 1-10. [Von Neumann Lecture given at Cornell University, Ithaca, on
September 2, 1965, for the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.]
1966
“Remarks on the Stability of Matter,” talk delivered at the sixtieth birthday
celebration of Hans Bethe at Cornell University, Ithaca, October 1966.
“The Search for Extraterrestrial Technology,” Perspectives in Modern Physics,
Essays in Honor of Hans A. Bethe, R. E. Marshak, Editor, New York: John Wiley
and Sons, 1966, pp. 641-655.
“Bridging the Gap between Physics and Mathematics,” essay for Committee on
Support of Research in the Mathematical Sciences, 1966.
“Opening and Closing Remarks,” CNRS Conference, Gif-sur- Yvette, April 1-5,
1966.
Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics, a Lecture-Note and Reprint
Volume, New York: W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1966.
Lorentz Medal Speech, Netherlands Academy, December 17, 1966.
Review of Mathematical Physics in One Dimension. A Collection of Reprints, with
Introductory Text by Elliott H. Lieb and Daniel C. Mattis, Academic Press, New
York, 1966.
“Stability of Matter.” Talk given to Eastern Theoretical Physics Conference at
Brown University, November 1966.
1967
“Bengt and Sigrid Strömgren.” Remarks for farewell lunch, April 11, 1967.
“Stability of Matter. I” [with A. Lenard], J. Math. Phys. 8, 1967, pp. 423-434.
“Ground-State Energy of a Finite System of Charged Particles ,” J. Math. Phys.
8, 1967, pp. 1538-1545.
“Time-Variation of the Charge of the Proton.” Phys. Rev. Letters. 19, 1967, pp.
1291-1293.
1968
“Stability of Matter, II” [with A. Lenard], J. Math. Phys., 9, 1968, pp. 698-711.
“Rhenium 187 and All That.” Popular Version.
“Space and the Physicist.” Supplement to New Physics , 7, No. 2 (Korean
Physical Society), June, 1968, pp. 5-8.
“Numerological considerations Relevant to Quasi-Stellar Objects.” Astrophys. J.,
154, 1968, pp. 37-39.
“Interstellar Transport.” Physics Today, October 1968, pp. 41-45.
1969
“Human Consequences of the Exploration of Space.” Carlson Memorial Lecture,
April 1968. Bull. Atomic Scientists, 25, Sept. 1969, pp. 8-13, Reprinted in ``Man
on the Moon,'' Ed. E. Rabinowitch and R. S. Lewis. Basic Books Inc., New York,
1969.
“Dynamics of a Spinning Gas Cloud.” J. Math. and Mech., 18, 1969, pp. 91-102.
“Seismic Response of the Earth to a Gravitational Wave in the One-Hertz Band.”
Astrophys. J., 156, 1969, pp. 529-540.
“A New Symmetry of Partitions.” J. Comb. Theory, 7, 1969, pp. 56-61.
“Existence of a Phase-Transition in a One-Dimensional Ising Ferromagnet.”
Comm. Math. Phys., 12, 1969, pp. 91- 107.
“Non-Existence of Spontaneous Magnetization in a One-Dimensional Ising
Ferromagnet.” Comm. Math. Phys., 12, 1969, pp. 212-215.
“A Case for Missile Defense.” Bull. Atomic Scientists, 25, April 1969, pp. 31-33.
“The Efficiency of Energy Release in Gravitational Collapse.” Comments on
Astrophysics and Space Physics, 1, 1969, pp. 75-80.
“Draft Statement on MIRV for the Council for a Livable World.”
“Statement on Ballistic Missile Defense.” Submitted to the Senate Committee on
Armed Services, May, 1969.
“Volcano Theory of Pulsars.” Nature, 223, 1969, pp. 486-487.
“Vulcanism and Seismicity in Neutron Stars.” Comments on Astrophysics and
Space Physics, 1, 1969, pp. 198-206.
1970
“Mankind in the Universe.” Lecture at Salzburg, Sept. 29, 1969, upon receiving
Max Planck Medal.-German version, "Menschheit und Weltall." Physikalische
Blätter, 26, 1970, pp. 7-14.
“Neutron Stars and Pulsars.” Fermi Lectures 1970, Scuola Normale Superiore de
Pisa. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Quaderno No. 152, 1971. Russian
Translation by A. P. Sondarova, MIR Publishing House, Moscow, 1973.
“Reflections--The Sell-out.” New Yorker, Feb. 21, 1970, p. 44.
“The Sell-Out.” Reprinted in “The Techniques of Reading” by Horace Judson
(Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 3rd. Ed. 1972), pp. 447-456.
“The Twenty-First Century.” Vanuxem Lecture, Princeton University, February
26, 1970.
“Correlations Between Eigenvalues of a Random Matrix.” Comm. Math. Phys.,
19, 1970, pp. 235-250.
“The Future of Physics.” Lecture given at the dedication of Jadwin and Fine
Halls, Princeton University, March 17, 1970, Physics Today, Sept. 1970, 23, pp.
23-28. Japanese translation Shizen, 1971-72, p. 35. Russian translation Uspekhi
Fiz. Nauk., 103, 1971, p. 529. Czech translation Ceskoslovensky, Casopis pro
fysiku, A22, 1972, p. 74. Slovene translation (no reference).
“Avoiding Nuclear War.” Talk given at Winds of Change Seminar, Michigan State
University, April 16, 1970.
1971
“Phase Transitions in Ferromagnets.” Talk given at Evanston Statistical
Mechanics Conference, Oct. 31, 1969, in honor of G. Uhlenbeck. Printed in
“Statistical Mechanics at the Turn of the Decade,” Ed. E. G. D. Cohen, Marcel
Dekker, Inc., New York 1971.
“The Next Industrial Revolution.” Tinlot Memorial Lecture, Rochester University,
Feb. 8, 1971, Reprinted in “The Key Reporter,” 42, No. 3, (Spring 1977), Phi Beta
Kappa, Washington, D.C.
“Chemical Binding in Classical Coulomb Lattices.” Ann. Phys., 63, 1971, p. 1.
Reprinted in Nuclear, Particle and Many-Body Physics, Ed. Morse, Feld,
Feshbach and Wilson, Academic Press, N.Y. 1972, 1, pp. 1-11.
“An Ising Ferromagnet with Discontinuous Long-Range Order.” Comm. Math.
Phys., 21, 1971, pp. 269-283.
“Arms Control and Technological Change.” Talk prepared for the Committee on
International Relations, University of Chicago, April 1971. Printed in SALT,
Problems and Prospects, Edited by Morton A. Kaplan, General Learning Press,
Morristown, 1973.
“Existence and Nature of Phase Transitions in One- Dimensional Ising
Ferromagnets.” Talk toAm. Math. Soc. April 7, 1971. Printed in Mathematical
Aspects of Statistical Mechanics, SIAM- AMS Proceedings, V, American
Mathematical Society, 1972.
“The Fundamental Constants and Their Time Variation.” (In honor of P. A. M.
Dirac's 70th birthday.) Printed in Aspects of Quantum Theory, Edited by A. Salam
and E. P. Wigner, Cambridge University Press, 1972, pp. 213-236.
“Energy in the Universe,” Scientific American, September 1971, pp. 51-59.
Reprinted in ``New Frontiers in Astronomy,'' Ed. Owen Gingerich.
“Distribution of Eigenvalues for a Class of Real Symmetric Matrices.” Revista
Mexicana de Fisica, 20, 1971, pp. 231- 237.
“Letter from Armenia.” New Yorker, Nov. 6, 1971, p. 126.
1972
“A Class of Matrix Ensembles,” J. Math. Phys., 13, 1972,
“Quaternion Determinants,” Helvetica Physica Acta, 45, 1972, pp. 289-302,
Erratum, HPA, 46, 1973, p. 274.
“Missed Opportunities,” Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, Jan. 17, 1972. Bull. Am.
Math. Soc., 78, 1972, pp. 635-652.
“The World, the Flesh and the Devil.” Third Bernal Lecture, Birkbeck College,
London, May 16, 1972. Reprinted in “Communication with Extraterrestrial
Intelligence,” Ed. C. Sagan, MIT Press, 1973, pp. 371-389.
“Experiments with Bomb-Propelled Spaceship Models,” Adventures in
Experimental Physics, B 1972, p. 321.
Review of “Ballistic Missile Defense” by Benson D. Adams. Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, 28, May 1972, p. 41.
“Intelligent Life in the Universe,” Lecture given at San Francisco, Sept. 18, 1972,
under sponsorship of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, NASA, and the City
College of San Francisco.
1973
“Nuclear Fusion in Accreting Neutron Stars:” (with M. N. Rosenbluth, M.
Ruderman, J. N. Bahcall, J. Shaham, and J. Ostriker). Ap. J. 184, 1973, p. 907.
“Science and Technology in the Next Fifty Years.” Talk at Naval Research
Laboratory 50th Anniversary Symposium, Washington, D.C. October 3, 1973.
Interview by W. Oltmans, published in “On Growth,” Bruna Publishers, Ultrecht
1973. Japanese translation, Japan Publications, Inc. Tokyo 1973. Spanish
translation, Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico City, 1974.
1974
“Our Stability is But Balance,” Pauli Memorial Lecture, Zurich, Feb. 18, 1974.
“The Hidden Costs of Saying No.” Talk to the International Meeting on Scientific
Research and Energy Problems, Madrid, October 16, 1974. Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists, 31, No. 6, pp. 23-27 (1975). Reprinted in “Business and
Environment, Toward Common Ground,” Ed. H. J. Leonard, The Conservation
Foundation, Washington, D.C. 1977, pp. 256-264.
1975
“Photon Noise and Atmospheric Noise in Active Optical Systems,” Journal Opt.
Soc. America, 65, 551-558 (1975).
"Fredholm Determinants and Inverse Scattering Problems.” Comm. Math. Phys.
47, 171-183 (1976).
“Breakdown of Physics in Gravitational Collapse.” (unpublished).
“Old and New Approaches to the Inverse Scattering Problem,” pp. 151-167 in
“Studies in Mathematical Physics, Essays in Honor of Valentine Bargmann,”
Edited by E. Lieb, B. Simon and A. Wightman, Princeton, U.P. 1976.
1976
“Phase Transitions in the Quantum Heisenberg Model,” Physical Review Letters,
37, 120-123 (1976), (with E. Lieb and B. Simon).
“Can We Control the Amount of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere?” Energy, 2,
287-291 (1977).
“Costs and Benefits of Recombinant DNA Research, “ Science, 193, 6, (1976).
“Interpretation of Multipath Scintillations Eleuthera to Bermuda in terms of
internal waves and tides,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 59, 1121-1133, 1976, (with W.
Munk and B. Zetler).
“The Hydrogen-Bomb Decision: A Reappraisal” Review of “The Advisors:
Oppenheimer, Teller and The Superbomb,” by Herbert F. York, Science 193, p.
668-669, August, 1976.
“Phase Transitions in Quantum Spin Systems with Isotropic and Non-Isotropic
Interactions,” (with E. Lieb and B. Simon), Journal of Statistical Physics, 18, 335383 (1978).
1977
“Stability of Kalnajs Disks,” Unpublished.
Report of the Princeton Community Biohazards Committee--to Princeton
Borough Council and Princeton Township Committee, May, 1977.
Acceptance Speech for Harvey Prize, Haifa, June, 1977.
“Pilgrim Fathers, Mormon Pioneers, and Space Colonists: An Economic
Comparison.” Lecture to American Philosophical Society, November 10, 1977.
Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 122, 2, 63-68 (1978).
“Image Processing and Live Optics.” Talk for ESO Conference on Optical
Telescopes of the Future, held at CERN, December, 1977. Proceedings, Ed. F.
Pacini, (Geneva, 1978), pp. 439-444.
“Physics in the Future,” in “Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Pupin
Laboratories,” Columbia University, New York, 1977, pp. 106-112.
“Science Policy Implications of DNA Recombinant Molecule Research,”
Testimony given May 5, 1977 to Subcommittee on Science Research and
Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology of the U.S. House of
Representatives.
1978
“The Effect of a Halo on the Stability of Uniformly Rotating Systems,” (with S.
Tremaine and J. P. Ostriker), submitted to Ap. J. (1978).
“Variation of Constants,” in “Current Trends in the Theory of Fields, A
Symposium in Honor of P.A.M. Dirac,” ed. J. E. Lannutti and P. K. Williams,
American Inst. of Physics, New York, 1978), pp. 163-168.
“Characterizing Irregularity,” Science, 200 pp. 677-678. May 12, 1978. Review of
B. B. Mandelbrot, “Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension.”
James Arthur Lectures on Time and its Mysteries, New York University, 1978
Series. “Time Without End: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe.” Rev.
Mod. Phys., 51, 447-460 (1979).
1979
“Beyond the Black Hole,” Comment by F. Dyson on paper by J. Wheeler,
Einstein Centennial Symposium, March, 1979.
“Einstein and the Physics of the Future,” Einstein Centennial Symposium, March,
1979. In “A Strangeness in the Proportion ,” Editor H. Woolf.
“Is Real Mathematics of any Use to Physics?” Talk to Australian Academy of
Science Silver Jubilee Symposium, Canberra, March, 1979. In “Changing View of
the Physical World, 1954-1979,” Ed. G. K. White, (Canberra, Australian Academy
of Science, 1980) pp. 1-8.
“Disturbing the Universe,” book commissioned by the Science Book Program of
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and published by Harper and Row, New York and
London, 1979. Parts of the book published in The New Yorker, August 6, 13, 20,
and in the Observer, October 28, 1979.
1980
“Ma Découverte de L'Amérique.” La Recherche, January 1980. Translation into
French of extracts from “Disturbing the Universe.” 11, Jan. pp. 91-98 (1980).
“Life in the Universe,” Third Albert Einstein Lecture, given March 5, 1980 at the
Rockefeller University.
“The Future of Desire and the Future of Fate,” Hilldale Lecture, given at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 15, 1980.
Letters: “Radioactivity in the Urals,” Science, 208, 652 (1980).
“Tragedy and Comedy in Modern Dress.” Keynote talk for the 29th Annual
Conference of the Mental Health Association in New Jersey given at Morristown,
June 3, 1980.
“The Quest for Concept.” Talk to the conference on the Arms Race under the
auspices of the Princeton Episcopalian and Presbyterian Churches. September
27-28, 1980.
“Quick is Beautiful.” Talk to Monsanto Symposium, given at St. Louis, October
23, 1980.
“Manchester and Athens.” Talk given to Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus
College, St. Peter, Minnesota, October 8, 1980.
FOREWORD by F. Dyson. “Consciousness and the Physical World” by B. D.
Josephenson and V. S. Ramachandran, Pergamon Press, Oxford and New York,
1979.
INTRODUCTION by Freeman Dyson: "Refusenik: Trapped in the Soviet Union,
by Mark Yakovlevich Azbel." Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1981.
"Brittle Silence." By A. Tsirul'nikov, Candidate in Pedagogical Sciences Senior
Scientific Associate, NII of General and Pedagogical Psychology, APN SSSR.
From Literaturanaya Gazeta, December 3, 1980. Published in Outlook. Summer,
1981.
REVIEW by Freeman Dyson: "John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From
Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death," Steve J. Heims, MIT Press.
1980. Technology Review.
1980
"Infinite in all Directions" Phi Beta Kappa Public Lecture, given at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Toronto, January
6, 1981.
"Science for Science's Sake: Public Support of Astronomy" Lecture to "Saturday
at the University," given at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, on
February 7, 1981.
"Quick is Beautiful." After-dinner remarks at the Workshop, "A Perspective on
Adaptive Nuclear Energy Evolutions: Towards a World of Neutron Abundance,"
at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 26
May 1981.
1981
"Unfashionable Pursuits." Lecture given on April 11, 1981 at Yale University in
honor of Feza Gursey's sixtieth birthday.
"Life in the Universe." Darwin Lecture, given at Darwin College, Cambridge,
England on November 10, 1981.
"A Model for the Origin of Life." Journal of Molecular Evolution, 18; 344-350
(1982).
"The Day After Trinity," J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb. PBS Film,
April 29, 1981.
"Return to Space," PBS Film, October 5, 1981. PTV Publications, Kent, Ohio.
"Mathematics and Physics" by Yu. I. Manin, translated by Ann and Neal Koblitz
(Boston, Birkhaüser, 1981), Progress in Physics, 3. Review in Mathematical
Intelligencer, 5, No. 2, pp. 54-57 (1983).
"The Origin of Genetic Information," Letter to the Editor, Scientific American, 244,
No. 6, p. 8 (June 1981).
1982
Compton Memorial Lecture, given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
on February 22, 1982. "Fighting for Freedom with the Technologies of Death."
"The Encouragement of Unfashionable Pursuits." Lecture sponsored by the
Program in the History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota,
given at Minneapolis, April 14, 1982.
"The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age." by
George F. Kennan. Review by F. J. Dyson for the Christian Science Monitor,
October 5, 1982.
"Interstellar Propulsion Systems," in "Extraterrestrials, Where Are They?" Edited
by Michael H. Hart and Ben Zuckerman, Pergamon Press, New York, 1982, pp.
41-45.
"Unfashionable Pursuits," in "Proceedings of Bi-National Colloquim," Edited by
Helmut Hanle, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, 1982, pp. 29-40.
"The Future of Desire and the Future of Fate," Russian translation by N. V.
Gorskoi, Priroda, 1982, No. 8, 60-70.
"Theology and the Origin of Life." Notes for a talk to Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley, November 11, 1982.
Helen Dukas. Remarks by Freeman Dyson at the memorial ceremony, Institute
for Advanced Study, March 15, 1982.
1983
"Science and Space," in symposium proceedings, "The First 25 Years in Space,"
edited by Allan A. Needell (Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1983), pp. 90-106.
Review of "Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections," edited by Alice
Smith and Charles Weiner, for "The New Republic."
"Weapons and Hope," book published by Harper & Row, New York and London,
1984. Parts of the book published in the New Yorker, February 1984.
Czas bez Kónca: fizyka: biologia w otwartym Wczechswiecie. Postepy Fizyki, 34,
263-291. Polish translation of Rev. Mod. Phys. 51, 447-460 (1979).
"Unfashionable Pursuits," Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 47-54
(1983).
"Bombs and Poetry," published in "The Tanner Lectures on Human Values," Vol.
4, ed. Sterling M. McMurrin (University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1983), pp.
81-145. Lectures given at Brasenose College, Oxford, May 1982.
1984
Russian translation of chapters 18 and 21 of "Disturbing the Universe," published
in Priroda, 1984, No. 3, 123-128 and No. 4, 123-128.
Scientific Autobiography for "Adventures in Science." Princeton, February, 1984.
Review for Science 1984, "Arsenal" by Kosta Tsipis and "The Abolition" by
Jonathan Schell.
"Saying Yes and Saying No," Convocation speech to Susquehanna University,
September 2, 1984.
"Astronomy in a Private Sphere," The American Scholar, 53, No. 2, Spring 1984,
pp. 169-182.
"The Maxwell Equations," in "J. C. Maxwell, the Sesquicentennial Symposium,"
edited by M. S. Berger (Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. 1984), pp. 17-22.
"Origins of Life." Nishina Memorial Lecture, given at Tokyo and Kyoto, October
1984.
"Science and Space, Oral Version." Evening talk, given on October 1, 1984, at
the Cornell University Symposium in honor of Ed Salpeter's sixtieth birthday.
"Unfashionable Pursuits" in "Symmetries in Particle Physics," Editor. I. Bars, A.
Chodos and C.-H. Tze, (Plenum Publishing Corp. 1984), pp. 265-285.
“Weapons and Hope,” published by Harper & Row, 1984.
1985
Remarks by Freeman J. Dyson at the acceptance of the National Book Critics
Circle Award for general non-fiction. New York, January 31, 1985.
"Origins of Life," Tarner Lectures, given at Trinity College, Cambridge, JanuaryFebruary 1985.
Lecture I "Illustrious Predecessors"
Lecture II "Experiments and Theories"
Lecture III "A Toy Model"
Lecture IV "Open Questions."
"In Praise of Diversity." Syllabus of Gifford Lectures, University of Aberdeen, May
1985.
"Star Wars and Austrianization and Nuclear Winter." Albert Pick Lecture, given at
the University of Chicago, April 4, 1985.
"Origins of Life," Nishina Memorial lecture, Japanese translation published in two
parts, Kagaku, Vol. 55, 268-276 and 369- 377.
"Gerard O'Neill," remarks at retirement dinner, Princeton University, on May 30,
1985.
"Hawks, Doves and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War." Graham T.
Allison, Abert Carnesale, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Editors. W. W. Norton and Co. 1985
Review by Freeman J. Dyson, Nature. 318, 415-416.
1986
"Space Butterflies: And other Speculations." Science 85, November 1984, pp.
127-130.
"Roots." Oration for the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises at Harvard University,
June 3, 1986. Harvard Magazine, 88, (July-August 1986), 17-20.
"General Theory of Spin-Wave Interactions." Phys. Rev. 102, 1217-1230, 1956.
For Citation Classics, June 1986.
"Science and Religion." (Statement to the Committee on Human Values, National
Conference of Catholic Bishops, Detroit, September 16, 1986). Published in
David M. Byers, editor, "Religion, Science and the Search for Wisdom,"
[Washington, D.C., United States Catholic Conference, 1987] pp. 47-62.
"The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons." Piece for the New York Times, November
1986.
"Paul A. M. Dirac." Obituary notice in American Philosophical Society Year Book
for 1986 [Philadelphia, Am. Phys. Soc., 1987], pp. 100-105.
"Les Dérangeurs de l'Univers," (Paris, Payot, 1986), French translation of
"Disturbing the Universe."
“Origins of Life,” published by Cambridge University Press, 1986 (revised edition,
1989).
1987
"A Walk Through Ramanujan's Garden." Lecture given at the Ramanujan
Centenary Conference, University of Illinois, June 2, 1987. Published in
``Ramanujan Revisted,'' Ed. George E. Andrews et al., [San Diego, Academic
Press, 1988], pp. 7-28.
"PREFACE" For a new edition of "The Physicists, The History of a Scientific
Community in Modern America" by Daniel J. Kevles (Cambridge, Harvard
University Press, 1987).
"Origini della Vita," (Torino, Boringhieri, 1987), Italian translation of "Origins of
Life."
"Livets to Begyndelser," (Copenhagen, Mungksgaard, 1987), Danish translation
of "Origins of Life."
1988
"Partitions and Indefinite Quadratic Forms," Invent. Math. 91, 391-407, 1988, with
George Andrews and Dean Hickerson.
"Alternatives to the SSC," letter to Physics Today (February 1988).
"Infinite in All Directions," (New York, Cornelia and Michael Bessie Books, 1988),
Gifford Lectures given at the University of Aberdeen in 1985. Paperback edition
in Pelican Books (1989), Penguin Books (1990).
Preface to Russian Edition of "Weapons and Hope," "Oruzhie i Nadezhda,"
[Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1990], pp. 10-11.
1989
"Mappings and Symmetries of Partitions," J. Combinatorial Theory, A51, 169180, 1989.
Preface to "Atom and Void, Essays on Science and Community" by J. R.
Oppenheimer [Princeton University Press, 1989].
"Feynman's Proof of the Maxwell Equations," Am. J. Phys. 59 (3), 209-211, 1990.
Feynman at Cornell, Physics Today, 42, No. 2, 32-38, 1989.
Review: Gary Saul Morson, "Hidden in Plain View." Comment written for Tolstoy
Studies Journal, Vol. 2, 1-3, 1989.
"The Face of Gaia," Chapter 2 of "Living Philosophies", edited by Clifton
Fadiman, [Doubleday, New York, 1990] pp. 7-15.
"Willard Gibbs and the Teaching of Science," in "Proceedings of the Gibbs
Symposium, Yale University, May 15-17, 1989," ed. D. G. Caldi and G. D.
Mostow [American Mathematical Society, 1990], pp. 269- 276.
1990
"Was HST a Mistake?" Sky & Telescope, April 1990, p. 357.
"The Importance of Being Unpredictable." Statement at the Encyclopaedia
Britannica award ceremony, New York, February 28, 1990.
"Strategic Bombing in World War II and Today. Has Anything Changed?" Talk
given on March 1, 1990, in the series "The Legacy of Strategic Bombing" at the
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
Review of "Ramanujan's Notebooks, Parts I & II," edited by Bruce C. Berndt, Bull.
London Math. Soc. 22 (1990), 607-609.
Review of "The New Physics" edited by Paul Davies, Am. J. Phys. 58 (3), 286287, 1990.
"Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere and the Biosphere." Radcliffe Lecture given
at Green College, Oxford, October 11, 1990.
Review of "Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar", by Kameshwar C.Wali,
Physics Today, 44 (March 1991), 65-66.
"Major Observatories versus Economy-Class Observatories in Space," in
"Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond," ed. Y. Kondo, Proceedings of IAU
Symposium 123, [Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990], pp. 399-405.
"Occultation Astronomy," in "Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond," ed. Y.
Kondo, Proceedings of IAU Symposium 123, [Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1990], pp. 413-415.
1991
"The Final Frontier," Issues in Science and Technology, 8 (Fall 1991), p.6.
(Missions to Mars)
"To Teach or Not to Teach," remarks in response to award of Oersted Medal by
the American Association of Physics Teachers, San Antonio, Texas, in January
1991, Am. J. Phys. 59 (June 1991), 491-495.
"USA-USSR Joint Conference on The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life,"
University of California, Santa Cruz, August 5-9, 1991. Concluding Remarks by
Freeman J. Dyson.
"The Future of Science," remarks for Symposium at the Académie des Sciences,
Paris, France, May 15, 1990; French translation with the title "De l'importance de
l'imprévisible," in "L'Avenir de la Science," ed. Jean Hamburger, [Académie des
Sciences, Paris, 1991], pp. 27-32.
Review of "Tuva or Bust, Richard Feynman's Last Journey," by Ralph Leighton,
Physics Today, 44 (October 1991), 114-115.
Preface to "The Stability of Matter: from Atoms to Stars," Selecta of Elliott H.
Lieb, ed. W. Thirring (Springer, Berlin, 1991)
(with S. D. Stoller and W. Happer) "Transverse Spin Relaxation in
Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields, " Physical Review A, 44 (December 1991),
7459-7477.
1992
"Period of a Discrete Cat Mapping," [with Harold Falk], American Mathematical
Monthly 99 (August-September 1992), 7, 603-614.
"Hunting for Comets and Planets," Milne Lecture given at Oxford, 24 October
1991, Quart. Journ. Roy. Astron. Soc. 33 (June 1992).
"Quantum Past: The Limitations of Quantum Theory." Schrödinger Lecture, given
at Imperial College, London, May 7, 1992. IASSNS-HEP-92/87.
"Nearest Neighbor Distances on a Circle." IASSNS-HEP-92/27.
"Revolutions in Astronomy." Compton Memorial Lecture, given at Washington
University, St. Louis, October 14, 1992.
"Dragon's Teeth." Science 256, (1992) 388-389, Review of "The Los Alamos
Primer," ed. Robert Serber and Richard Rhodes, University of California Press.
Preface to Paul Forman's "Not Transcendence: Essays on the Physical
Significance of Modern Culture," Cambridge University Press, 1992.
"From Eros to Gaia", published by Pantheon Books, 1992.
1993
Preface to Chinese Edition of "Disturbing the Universe," Commonwealth
Publishing Co., Taipei, Republic of China, 1993.
"Science in Trouble." The American Scholar, 62, 513-525, Autumn 1993.
"Homage to George Green: How Physics Looked in the Nineteen-Forties." Talk
given at the George Green Bicentenary Celebrations Nottingham University,
England, 14 July 1993, University of Nottingham Gazette, Autumn 1993, pp. 2327.
"George Green and Physics," Physics World, 6, (August 1993), 33-38.
(with Pavel M. Bleher, Zheming Cheng and Joel L. Lebowitz) ``Distribution of the
Error Term for the Number of Lattice Points Inside a Shifted Circle.'' Comm.
Math. Phys. 154 (1993), 433-469.
(with Pavel M. Bleher and Joel L. Lebowitz) "Non-Gaussian Energy Level
Statistics for Some Integrable Systems," Phys. Rev. Letters, 71, (1993), 30473050.
1994
(with Pavel M. Bleher) "The Variance of the Error Function in the Shifted Circle
Problem is a Wild Function of the Shift." Comm. Math. Phys. 160 (1994), 493505.
(with Pavel M. Bleher) "Mean Square Value of Exponential Sums Related to
Representation of Integers as Sum of Two Squares." Acta Arithmetica, 68
(1994), 71-84.
Preface to "Japanese Mathematics Problems of 18th and 19th Centuries" by
Hidetosi Fukagawa [Morikita Shuppan Co., Tokyo, 1994]
(with Pavel M. Bleher) "Mean-square Limit for Lattice Points in a Sphere," Acta
Arithmetica, 68 (1994), 383-393. Erratum, Acta Arithmetica, 73 (1995), 199.
1995
"The Coulomb Fluid and the Fifth Painlevé Transcendent," in "Chen Ning Yang,
A Great Physicist of the Twentieth Century," ed. C. S. Liu and S.-T Yau [Boston,
International Press, 1995], 131-146.
"21st - Century Spacecraft," Scientific American, 273, (1995), 88-91.
"The Scientist as Rebel," in "Nature's Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific
Vision," ed. John Cornwell, Oxford University Press, (1995), 1-11. Reprinted in
The New York Review of Books (May 25, 1995), 31-33. Italian translation in Kos,
No. 125 (February 1996), 18-25.
"Daedalus After Seventy Years," in "Haldane's Daedalus Revisited," ed. Krishna
R. Dronamraju [Oxford University Press, 1995], 55-63.
"Smaller, Faster, Cheaper: Empty Words or Practical Goals," Popular Science,
(Fall 1995).
1996
"Two Revolutions in Astronomy," Proc. Am. Philosophical Soc. 140, (1996) 1-9.
"Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary," with Foreword by Elliott
Lieb [American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, and
International Press, Boston Massachusetts, 1996].
"Beyond Mars," Ad Astra, the magazine of the National Space Society, 8 (MayJune, 1996), 40-43.
"Writing a Foreword for Alice Calaprice's New Einstein Book," Princeton
University Library Chronicle, 57, No. 3 (1996), 491-502.
Foreword to "The Quotable Einstein", collected and edited by Alice Calaprice
[Princeton University Press, 1996].
"The Oklo Bound on the Time Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant Revisited"
[with Thibault Damour], Nuclear Physics, B480, (1996) 37-54.
1997
"Imagined Worlds" [Harvard University Press, 1997], an expanded version of the
1995 Harvard-Jerusalem Lectures.
"Warm-blooded Plants and Freeze-dried Fish", The Atlantic Monthly, 280, 71-80
(November 1997).
"Chess and the Human Condition", Think, (House magazine published by IBM),
Fall 1997 issue.
1998
"Technology and Social Justice", Louis Nizer lecture, published by the Carnegie
Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York, March 1998.
"Science as a Craft Industry", Science, 280, 1014-1015 (May 15, 1998).
"Consilience", (review of book by Edward O. Wilson), New England Journal of
Medicine, (July 16, 1998).
"Critical Problems in Physics", (review of book edited by Val Fitch), Am. J. Phys.
66, 837-838 (September 1998).
1999
"The Sun, the Genome and the Internet", published by Oxford University Press,
April 1999.
New revised edition of "Origins of LIfe" Published by Cambridge University
Press, September 1999.
“Abdus Salam,” biographical memoir, Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society, 143, 347-350 (1999).
2000
"The Sixth Fermat Number and Palindromic Continued Fractions",
L'Enseignement Mathématique, 46, 385-389 (2000).
2002
"Memoirs: A Twentieth-century Journey in Science and Politics", (review of book
by Edward Teller with Judith Shoolery), Am. J. Phys. 70, 462 (2002).
"The God of Hope and the End of the World", (review of book by John
Polkinghorne), New York Review of Books, March 28, 2002.
2003
“Looking for Life in Unlikely Places: Reasons why planets may not be the best
places to look for life,” International Journal of Astrobiology, 2(2), 103-110 (2003).
“Opacity Bounds” (with Jeremy Bernstein), Publications of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific, 115, 1383-1387 (2003).
2004
“Elliott’s World: from Square Ice to Cubic Jellium,” Journal of Statistical Physics,
116, Nos. 1-4, 3-8 (August 2004).
“A Meeting with Enrico Fermi,” Nature 427, 297 (22 January 2004).
2005
“Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society,” Frederick S. Pardee
Distinguished Lecture Series, Boston University, 2005.
“Hanse Bethe and Quantum Electrodynamics,” Physics Today, (October 2005),
48-50.
2006
“The Scientist as Rebel” a collection of book reviews published by the New York
Review of Books.
2007
“A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe”, a
collection of lectures published by University of Virginia Press, July 2007.
“Advanced Quantum Mechanics,” published by World Scientific Publishing
Company, 2007 (second edition, 2011).
“Edward Teller, 1908-2003,” biographical memoir, National Academy of
Sciences, 3-20 (2007).
2008
“El Problema del Calentamiento Global,” (with W. Nordhaus, D. Zenghilis and L.
Sullivan), Estudios Públicos, 112, 83-118 (2008). Debate about global warming
translated from New York Review of Books, 55 (June 12, 2008).
2009
“Birds and Frogs,” Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 56, 212-223
(2009). Revised version translated into Russian, Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk,
180, 859-870 (2010).
“The Civil Heretic,” interview by Nicholas Dawidoff, New York Times Magazine,
32-39, 54-59 (March 29, 2009).
2010
“John Archibald Wheeler,” biographical memoir, Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Society, 154, 126-129 (2010).
“Chandrasekhar’s Role in 20th-century Science,” Physics Today (December
2010), 44-48.
2011
“Nicholas Kemmer,” Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 57,
189-204 (2011).
2012
“Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary
opponent,” (with William Press), Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 109 (May 22, 2012).
“Partitions and the Grand Canonical Ensemble,” Ramanujan Journal, (December
2012).
“Fifty Years,” essay from the fiftieth anniversary of the Association of Amateur
Astronomers of Princeton, Sidereal Times, (November 2012).