191 pp. Stated: "First Edition" with '1' in number line and ' 5-96 ' at foot of rear dw panel. Following the Preface and Introduction, Contents divided into 4 Chapters, (1) "From Copernicus to Newton"; (2) "Feynman: A Reminiscence"; (3) "Feynman's Proof of the Law of Ellipses"; (4) " ' The Motion of Planets Around the Sun ' (March 13, 19640)"; Epilogue, pp. 171-178; FEYNMAN'S LECTURE NOTES, pp. 179-182; Bibliography, pp. 183-184; Index, pp. 185-191.Tan boards with taupe cloth spine and brilliant copper lettering. Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($35.00) with Title and Subtitle in turquoise and orange lettering across top front cover, above tinted photo-portrait of Feynman in open-neck white shirt, lecturing in front of the classroom blackboard to students; Author names in smaller turquoise letters across bottom front cover. Accompanying Audio CD is boxed. The CD box is virtually As New with the "fore-edge" side, having a semicircle cutout for opening the box, resulting in the halves of the box above and below the cutout being slightly bowed out (the box has been put in the slipcase backwards, leading to pulling the box out of the slipcase at the point where the box is to be opened, AFTER the box is removed from the slipcase--describes much worse than it is, but there you have it [essentially a trivial matter]. The slipcase itself is only slightly worn at corners, presenting with very small white tips. The book and dustwrapper ensemble is FLAWLESS: IT or the combined items and slipcase are still, arguably in Gift-Giving Quality or you may need new friends.

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T�tulo

Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun (In Slipcase: Book and Boxed Audio CD)

Editor

W. W. Norton & Company, New York London

Fecha de publicaci�n

1996

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0393039188

ISBN 13

9780393039184

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

1st Edition

Estado

As New

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As New

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Rescued from obscurity, Feynman's Lost Lecture is a blessing for all Feynman followers. Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and exploits in his best-selling books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What DoYou Care What Other People Think? But not always obvious in those stories was his brilliance as a pure scientist-one of the century's greatest physicists. With this book and CD, we hear the voice of the great Feynman in all his ingenuity, insight, and acumen for argument. This breathtaking lecture-"The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun"-uses nothing more advanced than high-school geometry to explain why the planets orbit the sun elliptically rather than in perfect circles, and conclusively demonstrates the astonishing fact that has mystified and intrigued thinkers since Newton: Nature obeys mathematics. David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their effort to chase down one of Feynman's most original and scintillating lectures.

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Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) was a professor at Cornell University and CalTech and received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. In 1986 he served with distinction on the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster. David Goodstein, vice provost and Frank J. Galloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor at the California Institute of Technology, is the author of Feynman's Lost Lecture, among other works. He lives with wife Dr. Judith R. Goodstein in Pasadena. Judith R. Goodstein, PhD, is University Archivist and faculty associate at Caltech. She has taught history at Cal State Dominguez Hills and UCLA, while building from scratch an archive and rare book collection about the history of science. She is married to Professor David Goodstein.

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Retired academic's reference library with specialization in philosophy, religion, science, and mathematics--all scholarly subject areas; Pre-Socratics to contemporary; biographies; some series collections. General stock also, including fiction, poetry, literary criticism, mysteries, some foreign language, children's, history, sociology, psychology, education. Some signed copies.

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