The pleasure of finding things out : the best short works / by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips) (1918-1988)

ISBN 10: 0713994371 / ISBN 13: 9780713994377

Edité par London : Allen Lane, 1999

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi, 269p : ill. (cased) ; 23cm. Subjects; Feynman, Richard P. Richard Phillips 1918-1988. Physicists United States ; Biography. Physics. Science. Scientific studies. Academia. Education. 1 Kg.

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• Titre: The pleasure of finding things out : the best short works / by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins
• Éditeur: London : Allen Lane
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0713994371
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780713994377
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Hardback Edition.

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Synopsis

This magnificent collection of Feynman's best short works includes uproarious tales of Feynman's student experiments, his famous report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, his experiences on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World WarII, two seminal lectures on the future of computers and nanotechnology, and fascinating stories of the physicist as a child.

À propos de l?auteur

Richard P. Feynman (1918-88) was one of this century's most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers. In 1965 he won the Nobel Prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics. Books by Feynman in Penguin include Six Easy Pieces, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces and the bestselling The Meaning Of It All.