Genius Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

Gleick, James

ISBN 10: 0349104700 / ISBN 13: 9780349104706

Edité par Abacus, London, 1993

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Minor corner crease to rear cover, slight foxing to inside covers and endpapers. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. ; B&W Photographs; 544 pages; Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the Manhatten project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission, bongo-player and storyteller - Feynman played a bewildering assortment of roles in the science of the later 20th century.

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• Titre: Genius Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
• Éditeur: Abacus, London
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0349104700
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780349104706
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First British Edition; First Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good+

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Présentation de l'éditeur

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction.

Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman‘s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography—which was nominated for a National Book Award—of outstanding lucidity and compassion.