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A close friend of physicist Richard Feynman chronicles his relationship with the scientist and describes their ten-year quest to reach the remote country of Tannu Tuva.
Author : Ralph Leighton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393320695
A close friend of physicist Richard Feynman chronicles his relationship with the scientist and describes their ten-year quest to reach the remote country of Tannu Tuva.
Author : Ralph Leighton
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Physicists
ISBN :
A splendid piece of Feynmaniana--the Tuva attempt by a close friend. Includes a phonodisc of Tuvan singing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Peter Parnell
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822219248
THE STORY: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman holds forth with captivating wit and wisdom in this fascinating play that originally starred Alan Alda. One of the twentieth century's great physicists, Feynman was also one of its great ecce
Author : Theodore Levin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253045037
Theodore Levin takes readers on a journey through the rich sonic world of inner Asia, where the elemental energies of wind, water, and echo; the ubiquitous presence of birds and animals; and the legendary feats of heroes have inspired a remarkable art and technology of sound-making among nomadic pastoralists. As performers from Tuva and other parts of inner Asia have responded to the growing worldwide popularity of their music, Levin follows them to the West, detailing their efforts to nourish global connections while preserving the power and poignancy of their music traditions.
Author : Richard P. Feynman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393079813
The New York Times best-selling sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!" One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman’s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many tales—some funny, others intensely moving—we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.
Author : David Goodstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393078930
"Glorious."—Wall Street Journal 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.
Author : Lawrence M. Krauss
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393080544
"A worthy addition to the Feynman shelf and a welcome follow-up to the standard-bearer, James Gleick's Genius." —Kirkus Reviews Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear and novel expositions of science at the limits. From the death of Feynman’s childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his reluctant rise as a scientific icon, we see Feynman’s life through his science, providing a new understanding of the legacy of a man who has fascinated millions.
Author : Sevʹi︠a︡n Izrailevich Vaĭnshteĭn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 1980-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521220897
Includes chapter on reindeer herding.
Author : Richard Phillips Feynman
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393061321
An omnibus edition of classic adventure tales by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist includes his exchanges with Einstein and Bohr, ideas about gambling with Nick the Greek, and solution to the Challenger disaster, in a volume complemented by an hour-long audio CD of his 1978 "Los Alamos from Below" lecture. 30,000 first printing.
Author : Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307946495
Some of the brightest minds in science have passed through the halls of the California Institute of Technology. In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow joined their ranks to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Afraid he was not smart enough to be there, despite his groundbreaking Ph.D. thesis, he took his insecurities to Richard Feynman, Caltech’s intimidating resident genius and iconoclast. So began a pivotal year in a young man’s life. Though a series of fascinating exchanges, Mlodinow and Feynman delve into the nature of science, creativity, love mathematics, happiness, God, art, pleasures and ambition, producing a moving portrait of a friendship and an affecting account of Feynman’s final creative years.