Sinopsis de WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK?
What Do You Care What Other People Think Further Adventures of a Curious Character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P Feynman Richard Feynman Nobel Laureate teacher and iconic intellect possessed an unquenchable thirst for an adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life In this collection of short pieces Feynman describes everything from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think He takes us behind the scenes of the space shuttle Challenger investigation where he dramatically revealed the cause of the disaster with a simple experiment And he tells us of how he met his beloved first wife Arlene and their brief time together before her death Sometimes intensely moving sometimes funny these writings are infused with Feynman s curiosity and passion for life Feynman s voice echoes raw and direct through these pages The New York Times Outrageously gifted iconoclastic irrepressible Richard Feynman still has the capacity to suprise Observer One of the greatest minds of the twentieth century he was also stubborn irreverent playful intensely curious and highly original in practically everything he did New York
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141030883
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 256
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 06/09/2007
Año de edición: 2007
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Escrito por Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), nació en Nueva York y se doctoró en la Universidad de Princeton. Trabajó en el Proyecto Manhattan y ocupó cátedras en la Universidad de Cornell y el Instituto de Tecnología de California. En 1965 recibió el Premio Nobel de Física por su contribución a la creación de la electrodinámica cuántica. Entre sus obras, cabe destacar El placer de descubrir (2001), Seis piezas fáciles (2002), Conferencias sobre computación (2003) y ¡Ojalá lo supiera! (2006), todas ellas publicadas por Crítica.