Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Paperback)

Lawrence M. Krauss

  • 出版商: W.W. Norton
  • 出版日期: 2012-03-26
  • 售價: $520
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$510
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 368
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0393340651
  • ISBN-13: 9780393340655
  • 相關分類: 量子 Quantum
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商品描述

 gripping new scientific biography of the revered Nobel Prize–winning physicist (and curious character).

Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear and novel expositions of science at the limits. An immensely colorful persona in and out of the office, Feynman revolutionized our understanding of nature amid a turbulent life. Krauss presents that life—from the death of Feynman’s childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his reluctant rise as a scientific icon—as seen through the science, providing a new understanding of the legacy of a man who has fascinated millions. An accessible reflection on the issues that drive physics today, Quantum Man captures the story of a man who was willing to break all the rules to tame a theory that broke all the rules.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

引人入勝的新科學傳記,講述這位受人尊敬的諾貝爾獎得主(以及其獨特性格)的故事。

或許是二十世紀下半葉最偉大的物理學家,理查德·費曼改變了我們對量子力學的思考,這是所有物理理論中最令人困惑的。此書的作者勞倫斯·M·克勞斯,身為理論物理學家及暢銷書作家,提供了一部獨特的科學傳記:一個生動的敘述,結合了對科學邊界的清晰且新穎的闡述。費曼在辦公室內外都是一個極具色彩的人物,他在動盪的生活中徹底改變了我們對自然的理解。克勞斯透過科學的視角,呈現了費曼的生活——從他童年摯愛在曼哈頓計畫期間的去世,到他不情願地成為科學偶像——提供了對這位吸引了數百萬人注意的人的遺產的新理解。《量子人》是對當今物理學驅動問題的可及性反思,捕捉了一位願意打破所有規則以馴服一個打破所有規則的理論的人的故事。