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Summary: Explanations of physics without the complex math.
Review: Even though I am not sure he would want to speak with me. Amazing personality, great brain, talented... The book is amazing just like all the other books. For me as a non-native English speaker, it was a bit demanding to read it, but it was definitely worth the trouble.
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Summary: I read this book maybe once a month
Review: Every time I return to this book I pick up on more of Feynman's explanations. From almost beginning to understand angular momentum, to getting a feel for gravity, and how many laws have been integrated. For a novice at physics but with a keen interest this book gives an excellent background and, for me, is a joy to read each time, I can almost hear Feynman making his lectures and sharing jokes with his students. Each time I come away from reading this book I find myself pondering more about various aspects of physics and get a clearer idea of other books to buy to continue my current hobby of understanding the way the universe works just a little better (hopefully anyway :)
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Summary: Explanations of physics without the complex math.
Review: Feynman has written an excellent book here that I think is most appreciated by people that have a solid understanding of physics before they begin to read this book. I've heard some say that Feynman can explain things with extreme clarity to someone that has no knowledge of physics. I couldn't agree more. But at certain points in this book, Feynman begins to venture off and begin discussing things that are relatively complex and I can't say are really intended for people that don't have a solid background in physics. I personally found myself either thinking his lecture was either too simple (or explained extremely well) or too complex. All in all, I'm not sure who Feynman had in mind for an audience when he gave his lecture, but I would imagine it's for the person that has a solid background in physics and wishes to indulge in some physics "brain-candy" to think about some extremely interesting concepts. Good book. Surprisingly easy read. Very little complex math. ...
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Summary: incomparable overview of physics for general audience
Review: Feynman was a genius (not in the colloquial sense of being pretty smart and very successful, but in the sense of being smarter than almost everyone alive and being able to see the world in a new and interesting way). At least up to some fairly high level, the more you know about physics the more impressed you'll be by these lectures (which I wish they'd put on on DVD -- I'd love to own them). He manages to communicate some essential ideas so clearly that you can easily underestimate the depth of the ideas. I first saw these lectures in high school and was dazzled by them, but I was even more dazzled when I saw them again sitting in the old physics tank at Stanford (as a Ph.D. student).
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Summary: A Glimpse into the Mind of a Great Scientist
Review: Not the usual Feynman, but certainly Feynman at his best. We see what he thinks about, how he views the world and its physics.
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Summary: The greatest physicist.
Review: Once every 2,500 years someone is born who transcends human knowledge and takes us to a higher place. Richard P. Feymann is such a person. Let us thank his father who told him that you can know the "name of the bird in all the languages of the world, but you'll know absolutely nothing about the bird. You'll only know about humans in different place and what they call the bird. So let's look at the bird and see what it's *doing* -- that is what counts."
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Summary: The beauty of physical laws
Review: One the greatest theoretical physicists and popular lecturer, Feynman expresses his view on the puzzles, controversies, and problems at the core of physical theory. He uses as an example the law of gravitation to show that despite the simplicity of physical laws, they are not exact, there is always a mystery, always a place where there is further work to be done, so "scientists must stick their heads out." And what is most remarkable is not what scientists have been able to discover, but what nature has taught us. Feynman stresses the importance of mathematics as the key to any system of scientific laws (mathematics is more than just a language, it is language plus logic). This is a series of lecturers to be read preferably by those individuals who have a solid background in physics, otherwise you may find your neurons will not know in which direction they should fire! As Paul Davis rightly says: "theoretical physics is one the hardest of human endeavors, combining as it does subtle and abstract concepts that normally defy visualizations with a technical complexity that is impossible to master in its entirety." Feynman did have the genius to deal with it!
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Summary: a wonderful book for the interested non-physicist
Review: The book is a really good non-specialist's introduction to some of the basic ideas and attitudes of modern physics. It won't teach you physics, but it will teach you some important things about physics. This is an ideal book for a bright kid. It's accessible, and they have the thrill of being able to connect with the "real stuff". Smart high school kids know at some level that out of ignorance their teachers aren't really telling them the truth in math and science classes, and it's a thrill for them to hear things from someone who really does understand what they are talking about. Anyway, this book is great, and you should get it for your smart kid who is interested in science. You should also demand that they put the lectures on DVD, because watching Feynman talk is even better than reading the books. He was a god in the classroom, and it's easy when you see the lectures to understand why he was worshipped by a generation of CalTech undergraduates.
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Summary: Fun read for Feynman enthusiasts
Review: This book is apparently a nearly verbatim account of 7 Feynman lectures given at Cornell in the early 60s and is a short (but good) book. The level of these lectures was not highly technical so consequently a wide audience should find the book very readable. Of particular interest is the discussion of the way new physical laws are arrived at by scientists. Just be aware that as with other Feynman books every sentence packs non-trivial meaning so this is not a light read. It is a fun read especially for Feynman enthusiasts.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: This is the best science book I've read since Carl Sagan's THE DRAGONS OF EDEN. Its prose style is disarmingly simple and conversational, yets it cuts quickly and directly to the heart of the various matters it addresses. Moving, profound, and just amazing. You HAVE to read this.
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