Rebel without a pause

Abstract

[...]we learn of Dyson's beginnings in the United Kingdom, his early attraction to mathematics and his operations research at Royal Air Force Bomber Command during the Second World War. Discussion of Dyson's opposition to the Superconducting Super Collider and to the Hubble Space Telescope - in his view, oversized enterprises that monopolize resources at the expense of numerous smaller, more worthy projects - would also have brought a sharper, more critical focus on Dyson's contrarian personality, and made the end of Schewe's book read less like an extended, flattering magazine portrait of a prophet.