Bird or Frog?
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
The Essay Birds and Frogs (German Version) by Freeman Dyson
In the issue 1 of 2020 of the journal Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung the German translation of Dysons Birds and Frogs was published recently, translated by Sylvia Zirden. We were very astonished by that fact because a German translation already exists. We published that translation in our small publishing house in 2014. It was meant as an entry point and a motto for books to be published in the future. The book is equipped with a lot of illustrations. We published further books from Terence Tao, Yuri Manin, Pierre Cartier, Paul Cohen and others afterwards. The Ebook of Birds and Frogs (German version) has been downloaded over 1300 times. Freeman Dyson was very enthusiastic about the numerous illustrations, we had some discussions about the translation of the chanson from Monique Morelli/Mac Orlan, however.
Cover Vögel und Frösche, e-enterprise, 2014.
[Short version of the German text. Translation by J. Berlemann]
03.09.2020
Marietta Ehret
Sources
[1] Freeman Dyson, Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters. Liveright Publishing 2018.
[2] Freeman Dyson, Advanced Quantum Mechanics. 2nd ed., 2006, https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0608140v1
[3] Freeman Dyson, The Scientist a Rebel, New York Review Books 2006.
[4] Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D. Video of Quanta Magazine, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlaPLvETBug. Last view at 17th July of 2020.
[5] Freeman Dyson, Missed Opportunities. Bulletin of the Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 78 Number 5 (1972), S. 635-652 ff.
[6] Freeman Dyson, Birds and Frogs. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (2009), 212-223.
Cover photo from [4].