Richard Feynman – A life in science.(book review)

Title :- Richard Feynman – A life in science.

By :- John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin

Published :- Penguin Books, London (Viking 1997) Paperback (280 pages).

Outline :- Follows the life of Richard Feynman from his earliest days as a child born to American professors. He excelled in mathematics, and physics. His thesis included developing a new way to define Pie. Later he was part of the Manhattan Project to develop the nuclear bomb, though his work was more on the mathematical side. At one point another team had been unable to resolve a mathematical issue and invited Richard over to help, whereupon he solved the issue in a few hours. After the war he helped a friend who was struggling to resolve an ancient Myer calendar, where he found it was based upon the cycles of Venus, and this was also one of the calendars found to be used by some early American Indians. The Feynman lectures on gravity remain a classical study on this subject. Aside from this brilliance he was very much a man who enjoyed bongos, parties and life