Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Lif

ISBN: 0307946495

Author: Mlodinow, Leonard

Condition: new

Some of the brightest minds in science have passed through the halls of the California Institute of Technology. In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow joined their ranks to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Afraid he was not smart enough to be there, despite his groundbreaking Ph.D. thesis, he took his insecurities to Richard Feynman, Caltechs intimidating resident genius and iconoclast. So began a pivotal year in a young mans life. Though a series of fascinating exchanges, Mlodinow and Feynman delve into the nature of science, creativity, love mathematics, happiness, God, art, pleasures and ambition, producing a moving portrait of a friendship and an affecting account of Feynmans final creative years.