The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P.Feynman

Richard P. Feynman

ISBN 10: 0713994371 / ISBN 13: 9780713994377

Verlag: Allen Lane, 2000

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780713994377-4-2

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P.Feynman
• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0713994371
• ISBN-13: 9780713994377
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very good

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.