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Genius : the life and science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick. is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 Commission, Nobel Prize Winner For Work That Gave Physicists A New Way Of Describing And Calculating The Interactions Of Subatomic Particles, Richard Feynman Left His Mark On Virtually Every Area Of Modern Physics. Originality Was His Obsession. Never Content With What He Knew Or With What Others Knew, Feynman Ceaselessly Questioned Scientific Truths. But There Was Also Another Side To Him, One Which Made Him A Legendary Figure Among Scientists. His Curiosity Moved Well Beyond Things Scientific: He Taught Himself How To Play Drums, To Give Massages, To Write Chinese, To Crack Safes. In Genius, James Gleick, Author Of The Acclaimed Best-seller Chaos, Shows Us A Feynman Few Have Seen.^ He Penetrates Beyond The Gleeful Showman Depicted In Feynman's Own Memoirs And Reveals A Darker Feynman: His Ambition, His Periods Of Despair And Uncertainty, His Intense Emotional Nature. From His Childhood On Th
Who reads Genius : the life and science of Richard Feynman?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James Gleick.
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679747048
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Physics
- Rating
- 4.16 / 5 (15,189 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13