In the years between the world wars, astronomer Sir James Jeans was a bestselling author and one of Britain’s best-known science communicators. Yet after 1945 his work was largely forgotten, overshadowed in part by vigorous challenges from critics such as Bertrand Russell.
Samuel McKee and Jon Reynolds explore his work on the surprising effectiveness of mathematics and his interwar apologetics, and call for a reappraisal of his contribution.
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