What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character - Couverture souple

Feynman, Richard Phillips; Leighton, Ralph

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ISBN 10 : 0393320928 ISBN 13 : 9780393320923

Editeur : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2001

Synopsis

What Do You Care What Other People Think? One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century tells the stories of his life. Among his tales is an account of Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who lay dying in hospital while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, and the narrative of the investigation into the 1986 shuttle disaster. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman. Richard Feynman - Nobel Laureate, teacher and iconic intellect - possessed an unquenchable thirst for an adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life. In this collection of short pieces Feynman describes everything from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think. He takes us behind the scenes of the space shuttle Challenger investigation, where he dramatically revealed the cause of the disaster with a simple experiment. And he tells us of how he met his beloved first wife Arlene, and their brief time together before her death. Sometimes intensely moving, sometimes funny, these writings are infused with Feynman's curiosity and passion for life. 'Feynman's voice echoes raw and direct through these pages'
  The New York Times 'Outrageously gifted, iconoclastic, irrepressible ... Richard Feynman still has the capacity to suprise'
  Observer 'One of the greatest minds of the twentieth century ... he was also stubborn, irreverent, playful, intensely curious and highly original in practically everything he did'
  New York Review of Books 'If more scientists were like Feynman, the world really would be a better, and better understood, place'
  Independent on Sunday Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) was one of this century's most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers. Feynman's other books, also available in Penguin, include QED, Six Easy Pieces, Six Not-so-Easy Pieces, Don't You Have Time to Think, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, What Do You Care What Other People Think? and The Meaning of it All.

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Richard Feynman - Nobel Laureate, teacher, icon and genius - possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0393320928
• ISBN 13: 9780393320923
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 255