GENIUS - The Biography of Richard Feynman

[cloudsweeper]

This book, by James Gleick, is over 400 pages of excellent description of the life, personality, and career of this gifted and inspirational physicist.  It is written against a backdrop of the development of modern physics through the early to mid-20th century, and includes of course Feynman's work on the atomic bomb.

Feynman was somewhat rebellious, unconventional, and non-conformist, and how he dealt and worked with other scientists is well explained.  He took pleasure in solving mathematical problems that other researchers were having difficulties with.

It's a highly readable account of a man with exceptional talent, and even covers such matters as his attitude towards modern education, and relationships with the opposite sex.  

Feynman himself remarked: I don't feel frightened by....... being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it is as far as I can tell.  

Highly recommended!

Doug.

[Pete Presland]

I read QED by Richard Feynman last year. I can not pretend I understood all of it, but It was very accessible due to the lack of equations. I do find Astrophysics a very daunting subject which Richard Feynman manages to explain Using common language and "Feynman diagrams" instead of advanced mathematics.

[symesie04]

Feynman himself remarked: I don't feel frightened by....... being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it is as far as I can tell.  

 

Indeed sir indeed.