Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - Softcover

Gleick, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679747044 ISBN 13: 9780679747048

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

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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.

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JAMES GLEICK is our leading chronicler of science and technology, the best-selling author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Isaac Newton, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His books have been translated into thirty languages.

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hor of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science" (The New York Times). 16 pages of photos.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679747044
• ISBN 13: 9780679747048
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 560
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