Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

Gleick, James

ISBN 10: 0316903167 / ISBN 13: 9780316903165

Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1992

About this Item

First Edition (London, 1992). Name to half-title page, unmarked thereafter. Text block top edge a little dust-spotted. Unclipped dust jacket. Light shelf wear and creasing to the spine top and top edges, lesser creasing to the spine bottom, else gentle rubbing only. Blue cloth with bright silver titling to the spine. The boards remain clean and sharp, with some light vertical creasing to the spine ends. x, 533pp. Illustrated.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316903167
• ISBN 13: 9780316903165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

For nearly 50 years, until his death in 1988, aged 70, Richard Feynman's discoveries lay at the heart of the development of modern physics. Always controversial, Feynman (whom a colleague described as being like a combination of Groucho Marx and Alfred Einstein) was a key physicist from his days as part of the atom-bomb-making team at Los Alamos in the early 1940s, until his discovery of the reason for the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster 40 years later. This book combines Feynman's life-story with an account of his thought and its context.

About the Author

James Gleick was an editor and reporter at the NEW YORK TIMES for ten years. He is the author of GENIUS, CHAOS, which was nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, FASTER, and WHAT JUST HAPPENED.