Feynman's Lost Lecture: Motion of Planets Around the Sun - Couverture rigide

Feynman, Richard P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224043943 ISBN 13 : 9780224043946

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Richard Feynman's fame rests to a large extent on his picaresque exploits, but he was also a theoretical physicist of some significance. The discovery of the notes for his major lecture on the motion of planets around the sun, presented in this book, allows readers an insight into the workings of his mind. The book relates how the notes came to be lost, and how they came to be found again and reconstructed. The lecture concerns the fact that, when a planet or any other body arcs through space under the influence of gravity, it traces out a specific set of mathematical curves. Feynman considers why nature chooses to trace out in the sky those - and only those - elegant geometrical constructions.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"The Goodsteins have gone a long way towards making a tough piece of geometry accessible... The result is fascinating" (John Gribbin The Times)

"Feynman was singular in being both one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the century...[and] one of the most entertaining and illuminating teachers of science... Collectors of Feynman memorabilia, historians of science and all who enjoy watching a great mind at work will be thankful that the lost lecture has been found" (Frank Close Observer)

"Feynman was a brilliant thinker and one of the finest scientists ever" (The Times)

Biographie de l'auteur

Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, the late Richard Feynman taught for many years at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known to a wide readership as the author of Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think.

Dr. David Goodstein is Vice Provost and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Judith Goldstein, registrar and archivist at Caltech, is author of Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224043943
• ISBN 13: 9780224043946
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Goodstein David L., Goodstein Judith R.
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