Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April–November 1985.
"We must be careful not to discourage our twelve year olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations": First Edition of Infinite In All Directions; Signed by Freeman Dyson
Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April–November 1985.
DYSON, Freeman J.
$1,800.00
Item Number: 111045
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page with a quote from this work, “For John Rogers from Freeman Dyson We must be careful not to discourage our twelve year olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations see page 22.” Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Perlow. A unique example.
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