Quantum Man : Richard Feynman's Life in Science
ISBN: 9780393340655 | 0393340651
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 3/17/2012
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"A worthy addition to the Feynman shelf and a welcome follow-up to the standard-bearer, James Gleick's Genius." '¬ ; Kirkus Reviews
Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear and novel expositions of science at ... MORE
Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear and novel expositions of science at ... MORE
| Introduction | p. xi |
| The Paths to Greatness | |
| Lights, Camera, Action | p. 3 |
| The Quantum Universe | p. 18 |
| A New Way of Thinking | p. 36 |
| Alice in Quantumland | p. 51 |
| Endings and Beginnings | p. 59 |
| Loss of Innocence | p. 76 |
| Paths to Greatness | p. 92 |
| From Here to Infinity | p. 108 |
| Splitting an Atom | ... MORE |
| Through a Glass Darkly | p. 141 |
| The Rest of the Universe | |
| Matter of the Heart and the Heart of Matter | p. 163 |
| Rearranging the Universe | p. 180 |
| Hiding in the Mirror | p. 193 |
| Distractions and Delights | p. 218 |
| Twisting the Tail of the Cosmos | p. 233 |
| From Top to Bottom | p. 263 |
| Truth, Beauty, and Freedom | p. 287 |
| Character Is Destiny | p. 314 |
| Acknowledgments and Sources | p. 321 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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Lawrence M. Krauss is the director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. Hailed by Scientific American as a rare public intellectual, he is the author of more than three hundred scientific publications and seven books, including the best-selling The Physics of Star Trek.
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