Feynman's Lost Lecture

The Motions of Planets Around the Sun

David L Goodstein, Judith R Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein

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English

Vintage
20 June 1997

Mathematics & Sciences; Science: general issues; Theoretical & mathematical astronomy; Astrophysics

A fascinating and invaluable insight into the mind of brilliant physicist and Nobel Prize Winner, Richard Feynman, with illuminating commentary from David and Judith Goodstein.

On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thirty years this remarkable lecture was believed to be lost. But now Feynman's work has been reconstructed and explained in meticulous, accessible detail, together with a history of ideas of the planets' motions. The result is a vital and absorbing account of one of the fundamental puzzles of science, and an invaluable insight into Feynman's charismatic brilliance.

By: David L Goodstein, Judith R Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 138g
ISBN: 9780099736219
ISBN 10: 0099736217
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 20 June 1997
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, the late Richard Feynman taught for many years at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known to a wide readership as the author of Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think. Dr. David Goodstein is Vice Provost and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Judith Goldstein, registrar and archivist at Caltech, is author of Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology.

Reviews for Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motions of Planets Around the Sun

Anything about Richard Feynman is sure to find a ready audience of people interested in science, and people interested in the greatest scientist of his generation. The latest addition to the canon is something of a curiosity - the 'lost lecture' is one that was left out of the famous lectures on physics in the 1960s, and deals with the motions of planets around the sun. The book is filled out with background material on the importance of Newton's discovery of the explanation for the elliptical orbits of the planets, and a touching reminiscence by David Goodstein, one of Feynman's colleagues at Caltech. (Kirkus UK)