Genius the life and science of Richard Feynman
"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 commi...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[1992]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue. Far Rockaway. Neither country nor city
- A birth and a death
- It's worth it
- At school
- All things are made of atoms
- A century of progress
- Richard and Julian
- MIT. The best path
- Socializing the engineer
- The newest physics
- Shop men
- Feynman of course is Jewish
- Forces in molecules
- Is he good enough?
- Princeton. A quaint ceremonious village
- Folds and rhythms
- Forward or backward?
- The reasonable man. Mr. X and the nature of time
- Least action in quantum mechanics
- The aura
- The white plague
- Preparing for war
- The Manhattan Project
- Finishing up
- Los Alamos. The man comes in with his briefcase
- Chain reactions
- The battleship and the mosquito boat
- Diffusion
- Computing by brain
- Computing by machine
- Fenced in
- The last springtime
- False hopes
- Nuclear fear
- I will bide my time
- We scientists are clever
- Cornell. The university at peace
- Phenomena complex
- laws simple
- They all seem ashes
- Around a mental block
- Shrinking the infinities
- Dyson
- A half-assedly thought-out pictorial semi-vision thing
- Schwinger's glory
- My machines came from too far away
- There was also presented (by Feynman). . . Cross-country with Freeman Dyson
- Oppenheimer's surrender
- Dyson graphs, Feynman diagrams
- Away to a fabulous land
- CalTech. Faker from Copacabana
- Alas, the love of women! Onward with physics
- A quantum liquid
- New particles, new language
- Murray
- In search of genius
- Weak interactions
- Toward a domestic life
- From QED to genetics
- Ghosts and worms
- Room at the bottom
- All his knowledge
- The explorers and the tourists
- The Swedish prize
- Quarks and partons
- Teaching the young
- Do you think you can last on forever?
- Surely you're joking!
- A disaster of technology
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- A Feynman bibliography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration credits.
