Feynman's Lost Lecture: Motion of Planets Around the Sun - Rilegato

Feynman, Richard P.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0224043943 ISBN 13: 9780224043946

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1996

Riassunto

Richard Feynman's fame rests to a large extent on his picaresque exploits, but he was also a theoretical physicist of some significance. The discovery of the notes for his major lecture on the motion of planets around the sun, presented in this book, allows readers an insight into the workings of his mind. The book relates how the notes came to be lost, and how they came to be found again and reconstructed. The lecture concerns the fact that, when a planet or any other body arcs through space under the influence of gravity, it traces out a specific set of mathematical curves. Feynman considers why nature chooses to trace out in the sky those - and only those - elegant geometrical constructions.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0224043943
• ISBN 13: 9780224043946
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Redattore: Goodstein David L., Goodstein Judith R.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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