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Feynman's Lost Lecture
David L. Goodstein & Judirh R. Goodstein
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Description for Feynman's Lost Lecture
paperback. The discovery of the notes for Richard Feynman's major lecture on the motion of planets around the sun, presented in this book, allows readers an insight into the workings of his mind. The book relates how the notes came to be lost, and how they came to be found again and reconstructed. Num Pages: 192 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: PD; PGC; PHVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thirty years this remarkable lecture was believed to be lost. But now Feynman's work has been reconstructed and explained in meticulous, accessible detail, together with a history of ideas of the planets' motions. The result is a vital and absorbing account of one of the fundamental puzzles of science, and an invaluable insight into Feynman's charismatic brilliance.
On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thirty years this remarkable lecture was believed to be lost. But now Feynman's work has been reconstructed and explained in meticulous, accessible detail, together with a history of ideas of the planets' motions. The result is a vital and absorbing account of one of the fundamental puzzles of science, and an invaluable insight into Feynman's charismatic brilliance.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099736219
SKU
9780099736219
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About David L. Goodstein & Judirh R. Goodstein
Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, the late Richard Feynman taught for many years at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known to a wide readership as the author of Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think. Dr. David Goodstein is Vice Provost and Professor of Physics at the ... Read more
Reviews for Feynman's Lost Lecture
The Goodsteins have gone a long way towards making a tough piece of geometry accessible... The result is fascinating
John Gribbin
The Times
Feynman was singular in being both one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the century...[and] one of the most entertaining and illuminating teachers of science... Collectors of Feynman memorabilia, historians of science and all ... Read more
John Gribbin
The Times
Feynman was singular in being both one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the century...[and] one of the most entertaining and illuminating teachers of science... Collectors of Feynman memorabilia, historians of science and all ... Read more