Bibliograph

The pleasure of finding things out, the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins ; foreword by Freeman Dyson

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The pleasure of finding things out, the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins ; foreword by Freeman Dyson

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The pleasure of finding things out

Oclc number

42564066

Responsibility statement

by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins ; foreword by Freeman Dyson

Series statement

Helix books

Sub title

the best short works of Richard P. Feynman

Summary

A treasury of short writings by twentieth-century American physicist Richard Feynman, including interviews, speeches, lectures, and printed articles, in which he shares details of his private life, his work on the atomic bomb, and his conclusions on the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger

Table Of Contents

The pleasure of finding things out -- Computing machines in the future -- Los Alamos from below -- What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -- There's plenty of room at the bottom -- The value of science -- Richard P. Feynman's minority report to the space shuttle Challenger inquiry -- What is science? -- The smartest man in the world -- Cargo cult science: some remarks on science, pseudoscience, and learning how to not fool yourself -- It's as simple as one, two, three -- Richard Feynman builds a universe -- The relation of science and religion

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