Classic Feynman All the Adventures of a Curious Character

Name: Classic Feynman All the Adventures of a Curious Character
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ISBN: 9780393061321

ISBN-10: 0393061329

ISBN-13: 9780393061321

Edition: 2006

Authors: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Freeman J. Dyson, Ralph Leighton

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An omnibus edition celebrating a great scientific mind and a legendary American original--including a live recording. Richard Feynman (1918-1988) thrived on outrageous adventures. In the phenomenal national bestsellers ""Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"" and ""What Do You Care What Other People Think?"" the Nobel Prize-winning physicist recounted in an inimitable voice 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, solving the mystery of the "Challenger" disaster, and much else of an eyebrow-raising, hugely entertaining, and astounding nature. One…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.60" wide x 9.60" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.980



To the reader


Foreword


From far Rockaway of MIT


The Princeton years


Arlene


Feynman, the military, and the bomb


From Cornell to Caltech with a touch of Brazil


The world of the physicist


Mr. Feynman goes to Washington : investigating the space shuttle challenger disaster