Based on Feynman's "Messenger Lectures", given at Cornell and filmed by the BBC, this book explores the nature of the laws of physics (in particular, those of Newton, Maxwell and Einstein) and their relationship to mathematical formulation.
Presents Richard Feynman' letters. From down-to-earth advice to eager students to discussions of time travel, blunt rebuttals to journalists to poignant exchanges with his first wife as she suffered from tuberculosis, they introduce you to a unique person whose wisdom and lust for life inspired all those who came into his orbit.
Based on a series of lectures delivered to the general public at the University of California, the author wittily explains the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the central aspect of much of modern physics.
Richard Feynman - Nobel Laureate, teacher, icon and genius - possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and a gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life. This collection features his short pieces and reminiscences as he describes topics ranging from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think.
Drawn from his landmark text, "Lectures on Physics", this book reveals Feynman's distinctive style while introducing the essentials of physics. The topics explored include atoms, the fundamentals of physics and its relation to other sciences, the theory of gravitation and quantum behaviour.
Originally published by Allen Lane in 1998, a popular science book containing material from the physics lectures of Richard Feynman on the subject of Einstein's relativity theory.
