Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

Richard P. Feynman; Ralph Leighton

ISBN 10: 0393316041 / ISBN 13: 9780393316049

Edité par W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

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Synopsis :

"Surely You'RE Joking, Mr Feynman" In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums--and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Photos. Full description

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'.

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Titre : Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (...
Éditeur : W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition : 1997
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : very_good