Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Author: James GleickBrand: VintageColor: BlackEdition: ReprintFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 531Release Date: 02-11-1993Part Number: 9780679747048Details: 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.EAN: 9780679747048Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.3 x 1.3 inchesLanguages: English