![]() ![]() ![]() “Gleick’s narrative, consistently measured and elegant is a formidable work of scientific biography.” - New Statesman “The book is a moving, beautifully written literate and perceptive account of Feynman’s life.” - Nature “Mesmerizing…a stimulating adventure in the annals of science… would be surprised by Genius, and very pleasantly so.” - New York Times And it sheds some light on a very quirky genius." ![]() There's a bit too much dense scientific discussion to make it a casual read, but it does provide a useful overview of nearly all the major scientific breakthroughs from Einstein's relativity to nanotechnology. ![]() "This book is half personal bio of Feynman, half pure physics primer - maybe even more than half. Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman‘s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography-which was nominated for a National Book Award-of outstanding lucidity and compassion. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. ![]()
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