Richard Feynman était un physicien américain dont le travail a profondément remodelé la mécanique quantique et la physique des particules. Il est célèbre pour avoir développé une méthode visuelle de représentation du comportement des particules subatomiques, connue sous le nom de diagrammes de Feynman. Son approche a démystifié des théories complexes, les rendant plus accessibles à la communauté scientifique. L'héritage de Feynman perdure à travers ses profondes contributions scientifiques et sa remarquable capacité à partager l'émerveillement du monde subatomique.
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Richard P. Feynman was a great, wonderful letter writer – numerous letters to his family, friends, scientific colleagues, and laypeople have been preserved. His daughter Michelle has collected and commented on them for this book. For the first time, the personality, thoughts, and work of the century's physicist Feynman are revealed through his letters. They are moving documents about the life of an extraordinary person, which are enjoyable and rewarding to read.
In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts 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--and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Photos.
For non-scientific readers eager to experience Richard Feynman's own brand of science, this work provides six non-technical, introductory lectures from his "Lectures in Physics". The lectures are also available on cassette and CD, read by the author.
Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard Feynman, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a winner of the Nobel Prize died in February 1988. This is his last anecdotal biography in which he tells the story of the two people who most influenced his early years - his father who taught him to think and his first wife Arlene who taught him to love, even as she lay dying at an Albuquerque hospital while Feynman worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. There are also lighter moments which tell of his travels in Geneva, Trinidad, Greece and Japan.
Rescued from obscurity, Feynman's Lost Lecture is a blessing for all Feynman followers. Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and exploits in his best-selling books " Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! " and " What Do You Care What Other People Think? " But not always obvious in those stories was his brilliance as a pure scientist—one of the century's greatest physicists. With this book and CD, we hear the voice of the great Feynman in all his ingenuity, insight, and acumen for argument. This breathtaking lecture—"The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun"—uses nothing more advanced than high-school geometry to explain why the planets orbit the sun elliptically rather than in perfect circles, and conclusively demonstrates the astonishing fact that has mystified and intrigued thinkers since Newton: Nature obeys mathematics. David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their effort to chase down one of Feynman's most original and scintillating lectures.
