Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

by Feynman, Richard P.; Feynman, Michelle; Ferris, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780465023714
• ISBN10: 0465023711
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-25
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber-Richard P. Feynman was all these things and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track-collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman's letters-offers an unprecedented look at the writer and thinker whose scientific mind and lust for life made him a legend in hiw own time. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Richard P. Feynman was raised in Far Rockaway, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. He held professorships at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He died in 1988.

Table of Contents

1970--1975	257	(38)
1976--1981	295	(42)
1982--1984	337	(36)
1985--1987	373	(46)
Appendix I: Interview for ``Viewpoint''	419	(12)
Appendix II: ``Gravity, the Disrespectful''	431	(4)
Appendix III: ``The Future of Physics''	435	(6)
Appendix IV: Extra! California Tech Extra!	441	(4)
Appendix V: ``New Textbooks for the `New' Mathematics''	445	(12)
Appendix VI: ``Two Men in Search of the Quark''	457	(12)
Acknowledgments	469	(4)
Photo Credits	473	(2)
Index	475