Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Title: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman Author: James Gleick ISBN: 9780679747048 Publisher: Vintage Published: 1993 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Biography 1612633 Publisher Description: A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists a new way of describing and calculating the interactions of subatomic particles, Richard Feynman left his mark on virtually every area of modern physics. Originality was his obsession. Never content with what he knew or with what others knew, Feynman ceaselessly questioned scientific truths. But there was