I awoke yesterday to be confronted by the news of Freeman Dyson's death. Who you might ask, well he was a Theoretical Physicist, a man who dreamed of things and tried to make it work with very complicated mathematics.
For most it was his episode of Startrek and Picard's discovery of a Dyson Sphere, also staring the last appearance of Scotty.
His daughter, one of many children he leaves, is EstherDyson her book 2.1 is required reading. on Computer Science and the internet, I have an old copy I purchased on my travels through an airport.
The Guardian has an excellent obituary of Freeman, his life and Family, his awards and papers. Although searching on Google Scholar has many of his papers. If like me you can access many of them they are excellent reading, well mostly, a couple are full of complex maths I can't begin to follow.
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