Name: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (en Inglés)
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Author: Richard P. Feynman
ISBN: 9780465023714

portada Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Prefacio de

Ilustrado por

Editorial

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

512

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3 x 14.0 x 4.3 cm

Peso

0.43 kg.

ISBN

0465023711

ISBN13

9780465023714

Categorías

Biografías de científicos y doctores
Ensayos y correspondencia
Física

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (en Inglés)

Richard P. Feynman (Autor) · Timothy Ferris (Prefacio de) · Michelle Feynman (Ilustrado por) · Basic Books · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (en Inglés)"

"I'm an explorer, OK? I like to find out!" -- One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. It was his outsized love for life, however, that earned him the status of an American cultural icon-here was an extraordinary intellect devoted to the proposition that the thrill of discovery was matched only by the joy of communicating it to others. In this career-spanning collection of letters, many published here for the first time, we are able to see this side of Feynman like never before. Beginning with a short note home in his first days as a graduate student, and ending with a letter to a stranger seeking his advice decades later, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track covers a dazzling array of topics and themes, scientific developments and personal histories. With missives to and from scientific luminaries, as well as letters to and from fans, family, students, crackpots, as well as everyday people eager for Feynman's wisdom and counsel, the result is a wonderful de facto guide to life, and eloquent testimony to the human quest for knowledge at all levels. Feynman once mused that "people are entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before." As edited and annotated by his daughter, Michelle, these letters not only allow us to better grasp the how and why of Feynman's enduring appeal, but also to see the virtues of an inquiring eye in spectacular fashion. Whether discussing the Manhattan Project or developments in quantum physics, the Challenger investigation or grade-school textbooks, the love of his wife or the best way to approach a problem, his dedication to clarity, grace, humor, and optimism is everywhere evident..

Richard P. Feynman

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Feynman ha sido uno de los científicos más importantes en la historia de la física en el siglo XX. Fue un divulgador entusiasta de la física a través de libros y conferencias. Colaboró en el desarrollo de la bomba atómica durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y se hizo conocido para un amplio público en la década de 1980 como miembro de la Comisión Rogers, el grupo que investigó el desastre del transbordador espacial Challenger. Por sus contribuciones al desarrollo de la electrodinámica cuántica, Feynman, junto con Julian Schwinger y Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, recibió el Premio Nobel de Física en 1965.

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