Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character - Couverture souple

Feynman, Richard P.; Leighton, Ralph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0045300232 ISBN 13 : 9780045300235

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1986

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Richard Feynman was, until his death in 1988, the most famous physicist in the world. Only an infinitesimal part of the general population could understand his mathematical physics, but his outgoing and sunny personality, his gift for exposition, his habit of playing the bongo drums, and his testimony to the Presidential Commission on the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster turned him into a celebrity.

Richard Feynman died in 1988 after a long illness. Freeman Dyson, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, called him 'the most original mind of his generation', while in its obituary The New York Times described him as 'arguably the most brilliant, iconoclastic and influential of the postwar generation of theoretical physicists'.

Revue de presse :

"There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you can have no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician" (Hans Bethe, theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate)

"A storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain. He proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time" (New York Times Book Review)

"Quintessential Feynman - funny, brilliant, bawdy...enormously entertaining" (New Yorker)

"Buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0045300232
• ISBN 13: 9780045300235
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352