| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Genres: | Biography Books, Science Books, Nonfiction Books |
| Authors: | James Gleick |
| Pages: | 560 pages |
| ISBN13: | 9780679747048 |
| Tags: | Biography Books, Science Books, Nonfiction Books, Free Books, PDF Books |
| Language: | en |
| Type: | Digital |
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. 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.
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.
