Feynman
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781466832442 (1466832444)
Publish date: June 4th 2013
Publisher: First Second
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Science,
Physics,
Adult,
Biography Memoir,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics
A comic-book biography of Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman?! It's an idea quirky enough to have pleased the man himself, I think. It's a great way of finding out about a great scientist without risk of ever getting bored and would make a fine first book about the man for som...
A comic-book biography of Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman?! It's an idea quirky enough to have pleased the man himself, I think. It's a great way of finding out about a great scientist without risk of ever getting bored and would make a fine first book about the man for som...
Huge Feynman fans like me won't find much new here- but there's so much worth revisiting that it's well worth picking up. I loved the stories, I loved the recreations, and I frankly loathed the illustrations. This loathing took away no little enjoyment for me, but since it's a book about RPF, well, ...
An interesting portrait of a fascinating character. I enjoyed learning more about Richard Feynman - from his early life to his involvement in the Manhattan Project, Quantum Physics, and the Challenger investigation, and I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Feynman or physics.
The authors don't hide that Feynman didn't suffer fools (or, basically, anyone) but even given the unsympathetic main character it was a fascinating book that sort of made me want to read more of Feynman's work and maybe more about him.
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