This is a brief introduction to Dirac's life and work. It's plain and day that he was autistic (probably had Asperger's Syndrome). It's also a shame he isn't more famous; his work on quantum theory has been extraordinarily influential, bringing field theories of fundamental interactions to dominance and inspiring popular and increasingly well supported ideas about cosmology (Inflation theories).

The book is unreliable regarding the state of current physical theory, suggesting that both electro-weak-strong unification and the cause of matter-antimatter abundance asymmetry are both correct and understood. Neither is the case. As far as I know the parts about Dirac's science are correct however, and hopefully the same is true of the biographical details. ( )

Simply Dirac is a short book featuring the life and times of Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac. With it being so short, the book has no choice but to be the ‘lite’ version of other works on Dirac. For instance, the book mentions that it takes some beats from The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo, a book that I have read and enjoyed. Now, while Dirac might be famous in Physicist Circles, he is not famous to the layman. The common person on the street is way more likely to have heard of Feynman than they are to have heard of Dirac. However, his contributions to Quantum Mechanics are unquestionably brilliant. Although, I suppose all he really did was write a textbook on the subject and come up with the Dirac Equation.

The book discusses his contributions in an easy to understand manner, and explains all of the symbols used. This is a book to me as I have said in other reviews since I don’t know much about advanced Statistical Mechanics. In any case, this book was pretty good. It was just really short, but it was a good condensed version of Dirac’s Life and times.

I happened to find a printed version of this book, so I was able to read it in a format that I like. I suppose one of these days I will have to get a ebook reader or a device of some kind. Until then, the printed page is where it’s at. ( )