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Some of the brightest minds in science have passed through the halls of the California Institute of Technology. In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow joined their ranks to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Afraid he was not smart enough to be there, despite his groundbreaking Ph.D. thesis, he took his insecurities to Richard Feynman, Caltech’s intimidating resident genius and iconoclast. So began a pivotal year in a young man’s life. Though a series of fascinating exchanges, Mlodinow and Feynman delve into the nature of science, creativity, love mathematics, happiness, God, art, pleasures and ambition, producing a moving portrait of a friendship and an affecting account of Feynman’s final creative years.
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Feynman's Rainbow, Leonard Mlodinow
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- Released
- 2011
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Feynman's Rainbow
- Subtitle
- A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Leonard Mlodinow
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0307946495
- ISBN13
- 9780307946492
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Natural sciences, Philosophical Topics, Science, 20th century, Particle Physics, String Theory
- First published
- 2005
- Original title
- Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- Description
- Some of the brightest minds in science have passed through the halls of the California Institute of Technology. In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow joined their ranks to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Afraid he was not smart enough to be there, despite his groundbreaking Ph.D. thesis, he took his insecurities to Richard Feynman, Caltech’s intimidating resident genius and iconoclast. So began a pivotal year in a young man’s life. Though a series of fascinating exchanges, Mlodinow and Feynman delve into the nature of science, creativity, love mathematics, happiness, God, art, pleasures and ambition, producing a moving portrait of a friendship and an affecting account of Feynman’s final creative years.