[HN Gopher] Interview with Paul Dirac (1982) [video]
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       Interview with Paul Dirac (1982) [video]
        
       Author : privatdozent
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-09-03 09:41 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | open-source-ux wrote:
       | Paul Dirac was the subject of the BBC radio programme _In Our
       | Time_ in March 2020. In the programme, three academics discuss
       | Dirac 's life and work . It's a stimulating discussion, although
       | I can't honestly say I fully understood some of the explanations!
       | The episode can be downloaded for offline listening.
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       | Near the end of the programme (around the 40 minute mark), the
       | presenter, Melvyn Bragg, asks the guests: why is Dirac so unknown
       | compared to Einstein, Schrodinger, Nils Bohr, etc?
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       | One of the guests suggests that Dirac's abstract ideas are very
       | difficult to explain to the general public. Einstein's theory of
       | relativity is difficult to understand too, but over time popular
       | science has attempted to explain it. In contrast, it is very hard
       | to explain Dirac's ideas because of its reliance on mathematics
       | and mathematical structures (even though Dirac's ideas underpin
       | much of modern physics).
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       |  _In Our Time: Paul Dirac_ :
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       | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fw0p
        
         | subsubzero wrote:
         | I love that there has been renewed interest in Paul Dirac.
         | During the days of Oppenheimer, Pauli, Fermi, Einstein, etc.
         | Dirac was and always was a physicist's physicist. He was a
         | brilliant mathematician and I agree that his ideas are hard to
         | understand as they require a deep understanding of math, thanks
         | for providing that other link for further viewing.
        
       | goalieca wrote:
       | Dirac delta is a very important function in signal processing.
       | His work was foundational for electrical engineering
        
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