Basic Books, 2005. — 486 p. A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber — Richard P. Feynman was all these things and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track — collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman's letters — offers an...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 405 p. Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918–88) was that rarest of creatures — a towering scientific genius who could make himself understood by anyone and who became as famous for the wit and wisdom of his popular lectures and writings as for his fundamental contributions to science. The Quotable Feynman is a treasure-trove...
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Books Group, 1999. — 278 p. Editor: Jeffrey Robbins. Foreword by Freeman Dyson. From Wikipedia : The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a collection of short works from American physicist Richard Feynman, including interviews, speeches, lectures, and printed articles. Among these is his famous 1959 lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom",...
New York: Basic Books, 2005. — xvi, 270 p. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard Feynman — from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science — a life like no other.From his ruminations on science in our...
New York: Basic Books, 2005. — xvi, 270 p. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard Feynman — from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science — a life like no other.From his ruminations on science in our...
New York: Bantam Books, 1989. — x, 322 p. A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter...
New York: Bantam Books, 1989. — x, 322 p. A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 158 p. Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely, quantum electrodynamics), that part of quantum field theory...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 158 p. Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely, quantum electrodynamics), that part of quantum field theory...
Biography. - In English. — The imprint of the original book is unknown.. The outrageous exploits of one of this century s greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr...
Pantheon, 1992. — 531 p. A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists...
Chelsea House Pub., 2011. - 138 p. Richard Feynman recounts the life and career of the American physicist known for his work in particle physics, quantum mechanics, and quantum electrodynamics, a theory that illustrates the behavior of electrically charged particles, such as electrons, and their interaction with electromagnetic radiation. He played a significant role in the...
W. W. Norton & Co., 2011. — 368 p. Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with...
New York, London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000. - 260 p. — ISBN: 0-393-32069-3. Unrecognized scan, good quality. In 1930s, a young stamp collector named Richard Feynman coveted the unusually exotic stamps from a land called Tannu Tuva, ringed by mountains deep in Siberia, just beyond Outer Mongolia.Forty years later, the maverick Nobel Prize - winning physicist challenged his...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. — 630 p. Few would argue that Richard Feynman was one of the greatest American-born theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, and fewer still would dispute that he was the most iconoclastic. In the words of the eminent mathematician Mark Kac, geniuses are of two kinds: the ordinary, and the magicians. Feynman was a magician of the highest...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 328 p. — (Springer Biographies). Adolescent Years and the Principle of Least Action Childhood, High School and MIT Feynman’s Father Melville and His Passion for Natural Science Joan – Feynman’s Talented Sister High School Days Arline, the Love of His Life Going to MIT: Feynman Learns Quantum Mechanics – And We Can Learn with Him Feynman, the...
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