Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

by Gleick, James
ISBN: 9780679747048
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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 expos 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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Gleick, James
  • ISBN: 9780679747048
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.05 x 1.15
  • Number Of Pages: 560
  • Publication Year: 1993