Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307946495 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Leonard Mlodinow received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and now teaches future scientists at Caltech. His previous books include War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra); the two national bestsellers The Grand Design (with Stephen H
Afraid he was not smart enough to be there, despite his groundbreaking Ph.D. So began a pivotal year in a young man’s life. thesis, he took his insecurities to Richard Feynman, Caltech’s intimidating resident genius and iconoclast. Some of the brightest minds in science have passed through the halls of the California Institute of Technology. In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow joined their ranks to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Though a series of fascinating exchanges, Mlodinow and Feynman delve into the nature of science, creativity, love mathematics, happiness, God, art, pleasures and ambition, producing a moving portrait of a friendship and an affecting account of Feynman’s final creative years.
. Fortunately, Mlodinow's accessible style manages to convey Feynman's cantankerous appeal as well as some of the weirdness of theoretical physics without overtaxing lay readers, while his deft, funny, novelistic portraits of its practitioners, like the (as portrayed here) toweringly pretentious and touchingly human Nobelist Murray Gell-Mann, bring this seemingly gray sub-culture to vivid life. From Publishers Weekly The late Nobel laureate Richard Feynman has been virtually canonized as the People's Physicist-an earthy, bongo-playing free spirit who delighted in puncturing the pomposity of the establishment. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. And that's where this otherwise engaging book goes wrong, because, truth be told, Feynman
"Great service. Another interesting book about Feynman" according to S.D. McDonald. Great service. Another interesting book about Feynman.. David H. Vatz said Five Stars. I fully enjoyed this book !. Paulo C. Rios Jr. said Caltech's rainbow in the early 80's. This book is not really about Fernmann but about the author's stay at Caltech. For example, many entire chapters are devoted to characters other than Feynmann.Its negative points include:- Writing style with clichés (e.g., most chapters end with a catchy phrase and begin with a long description)- Misleading title- Several misinterpretations of what Feynmann's say- Fiction mixed with reality (some events and characters were altered)- Lack of a closer relationship of the author with Feynmann limit the author's insight into Feynmann's chara