Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by:
James Gleick (author)
The best-selling author of Chaos profiles the life and achievements of iconoclastic physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, describing his unique vision of science and his revolutionary legacy. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.
The best-selling author of Chaos profiles the life and achievements of iconoclastic physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, describing his unique vision of science and his revolutionary legacy. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679408369 (0679408363)
Publish date: September 29th 1992
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages no: 532
Edition language: English
An excellent book about a unique man who can be called genius without any exaggeration. At first I was afraid the book will be not much more than a retelling of Feynman's own stories from "Surely You Are Joking, Mr Feynman" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think". But it is not so -- the book...
Loving Richard Feynman is a fun little book about maths geek Catherine's life at high school and in a changing family, but it is also about her changing relationship with Feynman as she gradually reads his reminiscences in Surely You're Joking.Writing her diary in letter form to Richard Feynman, Cat...
I thought this biography sucked. Though he may have had his facts exactly right, he missed the whole spirit of what made Feynman cool. I don't recommend it. I was very disappointed, too, because he did such a great job with the Chaos book.
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