Feynman really was quite a genius and a wild character as well.
Since I'm not very well-versed in science, I've found that biographies of famous scientists are easier for me to digest, and I do pick up some tidbits of scientific information. equal parts awesome and educational/mind-expanding. " Bio of Richard Feynman: genius, physicist, teacher, and prankster. Even if I couldn't follow all of the science all of the time. " James Gleick on Ritty! A winning combination. Good balance of lucid scientific explanations and biographical narrative. Extremely interesting book - although with Feynman's life, it isn't too hard to make an interesting story out of it. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.The most touching, affecting, and important works of scientific biography to have been produced in the last 30 years, a fine book that deserves a place in every collection. A genius could not hope for better.” - Publishers Weekly “ steadily levies just enough of the burden of Feynman’s genius on the reader so that the physicist remains, in the end, a person and not an icon of science. “An inspiration to anyone in pursuit of their own fulfillment as a person of genius.” -, editorial review “I came away from Genius feeling that I knew a lot more about Feynman and his play in twentieth century science.” - Sunday Times (London) “Gleick’s narrative, consistently measured and elegant is a formidable work of scientific biography.” - New Statesman
“The book is a moving, beautifully written literate and perceptive account of Feynman’s life.” - Nature “Mesmerizing…a stimulating adventure in the annals of science… would be surprised by Genius, and very pleasantly so.” - New York Times And it sheds some light on a very quirky genius." There's a bit too much dense scientific discussion to make it a casual read, but it does provide a useful overview of nearly all the major scientific breakthroughs from Einstein's relativity to nanotechnology. "This book is half personal bio of Feynman, half pure physics primer - maybe even more than half. Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman‘s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography-which was nominated for a National Book Award-of outstanding lucidity and compassion. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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