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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Feynman, Richard Phillips. Pleasure of finding things out. Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1999 (OCoLC)623010415 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard P Feynman; Jeffrey Robbins |
| ISBN: | 0738201081 9780738201085 |
| OCLC Number: | 42564066 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xvi, 270 p. ; 22 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Helix books |
| Responsibility: | by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins ; foreword by Freeman Dyson. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
A popular science book comprising a collection of short writings by the twentieth century theoretical physicist, Richard P. Feynman, author of SIX EASY PIECES and MEANING OF IT ALL.
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