Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character
- ISBN-10
- 0393061329
- ISBN-13
- 9780393061321
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 511
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Authors
- Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton
Description
An omnibus edition of classic adventure tales by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist includes his exchanges with Einstein and Bohr, ideas about gambling with Nick the Greek, and solution to the Challenger disaster, in a volume complemented by an hour-long audio CD of his 1978 "Los Alamos from Below" lecture. 30,000 first printing.
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