Feynman's lost lecture: the motion of planets around the sun / David L. Goodstein and Judith R. Goodstein

Goodstein, David L. (1939- ); Goodstein, Judith R.

ISBN 10: 0099736217 / ISBN 13: 9780099736219

Published by London: Jonathan Cape, 1996

About this Item

Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 191 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips) 1918-1988; Planets Orbits.; Celestial mechanics; Conic sections. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Feynman's lost lecture: the motion of planets around the sun / David L. Goodstein and Judith R. Goodstein
• Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099736217
• ISBN 13: 9780099736219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 California Institute of Technology. Dr. Judith Goldstein, registrar and archivist at Caltech, is author of Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology.