Feynman's Lost Lecture - The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun

Informationen zum Autor Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, the late Richard Feynman taught for many years at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known to a wide readership as the author of Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think. Dr. David Goodstein is Vice Provost and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Judith Goldstein, registrar and archivist at Caltech, is author of Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology. Klappentext On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thirty years this remarkable lecture was believed to be lost. But now Feynman's work has been reconstructed and explained in meticulous, accessible detail, together with a history of ideas of the planets' motions. The result is a vital and absorbing account of one of the fundamental puzzles of science, and an invaluable insight into Feynman's charismatic brilliance. Zusammenfassung On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. The result is a vital and absorbing account of one of the fundamental puzzles of science, and an invaluable insight into Feynman's charismatic brilliance.

Product details

• Authors: Richard P. Feynman, D L Goodstein, David L. Goodstein, Judith R Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein, David L Goodstein
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1997
• EAN: 9780099736219
• ISBN: 978-0-09-973621-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; SCIENCE / General, REFERENCE / General, Solar system: the Sun & planets, Solar system: the Sun and planets, Theoretical and mathematical astronomy