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Feynman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-solving supplement to the Feynman lectures on physics by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Science
This title provides essential advice on problem solving from physics' clearest teacher. "Feynman's Tips on Physics" is a book in two parts. The first will be a treat for any Feynman fan: it includes a memoir by Matthew Sands about the origins of the "Feynman Lectures on Physics", and is dominated by fou ...Show more
Q.E.D.: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Quantum electrodynamics - or QED, for short - is the revolutionary theory that explains how light and electrons interact. Thanks to richard Feynman and his colleagues, who won the Nobel Prize for their ground-breaking work in this area, it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for sure, ...Show more
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely, quantum electrodynamics), tha ...Show more
Six Not-so-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Science
Six lectures, all regarding the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einsteins Theory of Relativity. No onenot even Einstein himselfexplained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Feynman.
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Biography
Richard Feynman (1918-1988), winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most ...Show more
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (Contribution by)
Category: Science
Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safe ...Show more
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Science
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possi ...Show more
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Non-Fiction
This collection of the best short works of rule-breaking genius Richard Feynman shows his passion for knowledge and sense of fun at their most infectious. The revealing and inspiring pieces here span a lifetime of enthusiasm for discovering what makes the world tick - including uproarious tales of early ...Show more
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
Category: Science
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynmanfrom interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his r ...Show more
What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman; Ralph Leighton (Editor)
Category: Science
Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman " this book's many stories--some funny, others intensely moving--display Richard P. Feynman's unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life.Here we meet Feynman' ...Show more
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