Richard P. Feynman

Richard Feynman (1918-1988), winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets; painting a naked female toreador—and much else of an eyebrow-raising nature. In short, here is Feynman's life in all its eccentric glory—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah.

Американский физик Ричард Фейнман – один из создателей квантовой электродинамики, Нобелевский лауреат, но прежде всего – незаурядная многогранная личность, не вписывающаяся в привычные рамки образа «человека науки». Он был известен своим пристрастием к шуткам и розыгрышам, писал изумительные портреты, играл на экзотических музыкальных инструментах. Великолепный оратор, он превращал каждую свою лекцию в захватывающую интеллектуальную игру. На его выступления рвались не только студенты и коллеги, но и люди, просто увлеченные физикой. Свое кредо как популяризатора науки он описал одной блестящей фразой: «Если вы ученый, квантовый физик, и не можете в двух словах объяснить пятилетнему ребенку, чем занимаетесь, – вы шарлатан».

When, in 1984–86, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book. Although led by Feynman, the course also featured, as occasional guest speakers, some of the most brilliant men in science at that time, including Marvin Minsky, Charles Bennett, and John Hopfield. Although the lectures are now thirteen years old, most of the material is timeless and presents a “Feynmanesque” overview of many standard and some not-so-standard topics in computer science such as reversible logic gates and quantum computers.

The New York Times  best-selling sequel to  "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!" One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"  is Feynman’s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many tales―some funny, others intensely moving―we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle  Challenger ’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.