Feynman's Lost Lecture - Richard P. Feynman, David Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein

Feynman's Lost Lecture

The Motion of Planets Around the Sun
Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
1996
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-03918-4 (ISBN)
32,70 inkl. MwSt
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"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 DoYou 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.

Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was a professor at Cornell University and CalTech and received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. In 1986 he served with distinction on the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster. David Goodstein, former vice provost and Frank J. Galloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor at the California Institute of Technology, is the author of Out of Oil and Feynman's Lost Lecture, among other works. Judith R. Goodstein, PhD, is University Archivist and faculty associate at Caltech. She has taught history at Cal State Dominguez Hills and UCLA, while building from scratch an archive and rare book collection about the history of science. She is married to Professor David Goodstein.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.6.1996
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 224 mm
Gewicht 600 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10 0-393-03918-8 / 0393039188
ISBN-13 978-0-393-03918-4 / 9780393039184
Zustand Neuware
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