A fascinating and invaluable insight into the mind of brilliant physicist and Nobel Prize Winner, Richard Feynman, with illuminating commentary from David and Judith Goodstein.
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.
The Goodsteins have gone a long way towards making a tough piece of
geometry accessible... The result is fascinating
*The Times*
Feynman was singular in being both one of the greatest theoretical
physicists of the century...[and] one of the most entertaining and
illuminating teachers of science... Collectors of Feynman
memorabilia, historians of science and all who enjoy watching a
great mind at work will be thankful that the lost lecture has been
found
*Observer*
Feynman was a brilliant thinker and one of the finest scientists
ever
*The Times*
Isaac Newton, in his Principia Mathematica (1687), proved Johannes Kepler's law explaining why planets travel in elliptical orbits around the Sun. In 1964, theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, the bestselling author and Nobel Prize winner, set forth his own proof of Kepler's law, using only plane geometry. Feynman's difficult proof, presented in an introductory lecture to Caltech undergraduates, never made it into the classic multivolume Feynman Lectures on Physics, published between 1963 and 1965, but California Institute of Technology archivist Judith Goodstein unearthed the transcript of Feynman's 1964 lecture, published here along with explanatory commentary and historical background, plus 25 photographs and 150 diagrams. Caltech physics professor David Goodstein, Feynman's friend and colleague until the latter's death in 1988, provides a warm reminiscence and does a good job of explaining how quantum physics and relativity supplanted Newtonian science. (May)
The Goodsteins have gone a long way towards making a tough piece of
geometry accessible... The result is fascinating -- John Gribbin *
The Times *
Feynman was singular in being both one of the greatest theoretical
physicists of the century...[and] one of the most entertaining and
illuminating teachers of science... Collectors of Feynman
memorabilia, historians of science and all who enjoy watching a
great mind at work will be thankful that the lost lecture has been
found -- Frank Close * Observer *
Feynman was a brilliant thinker and one of the finest scientists
ever * The Times *
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