Richard Phillips Feynman Phd (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from 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 ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will delight anyone interested in the world of ideas. From the irregular trivia of ordinary life mixed with a bit of scientific doodling and failure to the intense dramatic concentration as one closes in on the truth and the final elation (plus, with gradually decreasing frequency, the sudden sharp pangs of doubt)--that is how science is done.--Richard P. Feynman to James D. Watson.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from 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 ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will delight anyone interested in the world of ideas. From the irregular trivia of ordinary life mixed with a bit of scientific doodling and failure to the intense dramatic concentration as one closes in on the truth and the final elation (plus, with gradually decreasing frequency, the sudden sharp pangs of doubt)--that is how science is done.--Richard P. Feynman to James D. Watson.…

Condition: Fair. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. In these two perennially popular, bestselling memoir collections, Feynman weaves his views on modern science together with his outrageous life experiences--a combustible mixture of intelligence, curiosity, skepticism, and chutzpah. In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman , Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr, gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. In What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Feynman introduces us to his first love, who lay dying in a nearby hospital while he worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and shares his brilliant experiment which revealed the cause of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. A fine copy in pictorial wraps. Later printing. Covers have some minor general wear. The top corner of page 11 has a crease. A nice tight copy with no names or inscriptions. Illustrated. Cover may not match stock copy photo. 8vo; 146 pages.

Condition: Fair. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. In these two perennially popular, bestselling memoir collections, Feynman weaves his views on modern science together with his outrageous life experiences--a combustible mixture of intelligence, curiosity, skepticism, and chutzpah. In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman , Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr, gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. In What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Feynman introduces us to his first love, who lay dying in a nearby hospital while he worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and shares his brilliant experiment which revealed the cause of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Moderate foxing. Owner's name and blind stamp on front end page, else unmarked. Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist who was widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in his field in the post-World War II era. Feynman remade quantum electrodynamics, the theory of the interaction between light and matter, and thus altered the way science understands the nature of waves and particles. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 for this work, which tied together in an experimentally perfect package all the varied phenomena at work in light, radio, electricity, and magnetism.…

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. International Earth & Planetary Sciences. Audience: General/trade.