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The pleasure of finding things out : the best short works of Richard P. Feynman
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"Richard Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century - from his work on the atomic bomb to his solution to the puzzle of the Challenger disaster. Feynman helped to shape the worl...
"Richard Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century - from his work on the atomic bomb to his solution to the puzzle of the Challenger disaster. Feynman helped to shape the world as we know it. Nobel laureate, iconoclastic icon, caring family man, amateur artist, and professional musician (in a Rio de Janeiro samba band), Feynman was a man of many dimensions." "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a treasury of the best of Feynman's short works - from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles."--BOOK JACKET.
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- by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins ; foreword by Freeman Dyson
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- English
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, [1999]
- ©1999
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- xvi, 270 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780738201085, 0738201081
- OCLC
- ocm42564066
- Includes index.
- Foreword / Freeman Dyson -- 1. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out -- 2. Computing Machines in the Future -- 3. Los Alamos from Below -- 4. What Is and What Should Be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society -- 5. There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom -- 6. The Value of Science -- 7. Richard P. Feynman's Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry -- 8. What Is Science? -- 9. The Smartest Man in the World -- 10. Cargo Cult Science: Some Remarks on Science, Pseudoscience, and Learning How to Not Fool Yourself -- 11. It's as Simple as One, Two, Three -- 12. Richard Feynman Builds a Universe -- 13. The Relation of Science and Religion