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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57393623 Title: Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track : the letters of Richard P. Feynman Author: Richard Phillips Feynman; Michelle Feynman Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©2005. ISBN/ISSN: 0738206369 9780738206363 0465023711 9780465023714 OCLC:57393623

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Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track : the letters of Richard P. Feynman

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Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track : the letters of Richard P. Feynman

Author:	Richard Phillips Feynman; Michelle Feynman
Publisher:	New York : Basic Books, ©2005.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. It was his outsized love for life, however, that earned him the status of an American cultural icon--here was an extraordinary Read more...
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Named Person:	Richard Phillips Feynman
Material Type:	Biography, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Richard Phillips Feynman; Michelle Feynman Find more information about:
ISBN:	0738206369 9780738206363 0465023711 9780465023714
OCLC Number:	57393623
Description:	xxiii, 486 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility:	edited and with additional commentary by Michelle Feynman ; foreword by Timothy Ferris.
More information:	Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description

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One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. It was his outsized love for life, however, that earned him the status of an American cultural icon--here was an extraordinary intellect devoted to the proposition that the thrill of discovery was matched only by the joy of communicating it to others. In this career-spanning collection of letters, many published here for the first time, we are able to see this side of Feynman like never before. As edited and annotated by his daughter, Michelle, these letters not only allow us to better grasp the how and why of Feynman's enduring appeal, but also to see the virtues of an inquiring eye in spectacular fashion. The result is a wonderful de facto guide to life, an eloquent testimony to the human quest for knowledge at all levels.

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