Against the Tide : An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider, Ha...

by Woods, L. C

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Against the Tide : An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider, Hardcover by Woods, L. C., ISBN 0750306904, ISBN-13 9780750306904, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Woods recounts his journey from a fisherman's son in New Zealand to Head of the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University. A scholarship to university bailed him out of trade school, then he ran away and joined the air force to become a fighter pilot in the Pacific during World War II. Later he resumed his academic pursuits through aerodynamics, engineering, and plasma theory. At 74 he took up gliding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• ISBN: 9780750306904
• Condition: Fine

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