Sinossi
All'indomani del disastro dello Space Shuttle Challenger, nel 1986, il presidente degli Stati Uniti istituì una commissione governativa incaricata di far luce sulle cause della tragica esplosione. A farne parte fu chiamato anche Richard Feynman, e furono in molti a chiedersi quale apporto potesse dare, fra ingegneri, astronauti e tecnici aerospaziali, un sia pur celebre fisico teorico. Ma fu proprio Feynman a dimostrare, fra lo sbalordimento generale, che l'incidente era stato causato da una semplice guarnizione di gomma. La relazione che presentò figura in questo libro che raccoglie saggi di diverso argomento: dalla sociologia della scienza alla struttura dei calcolatori, dalla pedagogia al rapporto tra scienze e religione.
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- Pagine: 284
- Data di uscita: 02-10-2002
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Here's the problem with having high expectations: they're so often dashed. In my years trawling the web and being a science nerd, I've heard a lot about Richard Feynman. There are legends about him, that he was the Puck of physics - brilliant, untamed, and really, really funny. When I got the book, I Leggi tutto
Whatever your opinion of Feynman, you need to reconcile the fact that he's got unbearably retrograde opinions: "When I was at Cornell, I was rather fascinated by the student body, which seems to me was a dilute mixture of some sensible people in a big mass of dumb people studying home economics, etc, Leggi tutto
Perhaps not the best book to receive an introduction to the world and accomplishments from Richard Feynman. A loose collection of essay's about various topics, such as his time during the Manhattan project or his research in the Challenger disaster.
اخترت قراءة هذا الكتاب لمحاولة الدخول لعقل أحد العلماء الذين شاركوا في صنع القنبلة النووية كيف يفكر؟ .. كيف يحلل؟ .. وكيف ينظر للأشياء والأمور ؟ قد تكون هناك صعوبه في قراءة نص مكتوب عن حوارات ومقابلات شفهية ، وعلمية بحتة في بعضها الآخر . لكن بين السطور هناك خلاصات وخبرات قد تفيد من يعمل في أي مجال عل Leggi tutto
Feynman is brilliant, arrogant and emotionally cold. He was the youngest brilliant mind working on the atomic bomb in Los Alamos in the 1940's and later won the Nobel Prize in physics. This book is an unintegrated collection of essays, transcripts of speeches, interviews and memoirs. As such it gets Leggi tutto
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