Name: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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Author: Gleick, James
ISBN: 9780679747048

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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Type

Physical Book

Author

James Gleick

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

531

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4x13.2x2.9 cm

Weight

0.56 kg.

ISBN

0679747044

ISBN13

9780679747048

Synopsis "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman "

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.