Genius Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

James Gleick

ISBN 10: 0679408363 / ISBN 13: 9780679408369

Edité par Rupa & Co, Calcutta, 1992

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This edition is for sale in India only. Gilt lettering on blue covers in a purple dust jacket. 8vo, 532pp.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Genius Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
• Éditeur: Rupa & Co, Calcutta
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0679408363
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780679408369
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New

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Synopsis

The best-selling author of Chaos profiles the life and achievements of iconoclastic physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, describing his unique vision of science and his revolutionary legacy. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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.