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The Character of Physical Law
Penguin
Paperback : 29 Oct 1992
£9.99
Synopsis
A series of classic lectures, delivered in 1960 and recorded for the BBC. This is Feynman's unique take on the problems and puzzles that lie at the heart of physical theory - with Newton's Law of Gravitation; on whether time can ever go backwards; on maths as the supreme language of nature. This collection demonstrates Feynman's knack of finding the right everyday illustration to bring out the essence of a complicated principle - for example, the brilliant analogy between the law of conservation energy and the problem of drying yourself with wet towels.Reviews
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‘Feynman’s style inspired a generation of scientists. This volume remains the best record I know of his exhilarating vision’
Paul Davies
Guardian ‘One of the most influential and best loved physicists of his generation’
Michael White, Mail on Sunday ‘Richard Feynman was to the second half of the century what Einstein was to the first: the perfect example of scientific genius’
Frank McLynn, Independent Feynman must rank as one of the great teachers of physics of the 20th century.’
Andrew Briggs, THES ‘One of the great minds of the century’
Alan Lightman, The New York Review ‘Feynman is the young American professor, half genius and half buffoon, who keeps all physicists and their children amused with his effervescent vitality’
Freeman Dyson ‘A man who clowns around while talking but who is in fact deeply serious’
Abraham Pais ‘There is an important sense in which all modern physicists are Feynman’s students’
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