Resources on Feynman!
After having read books on the life and the times of the legendary Richard.p.feynman, I have decided to equip myself with all the information I can find about him. Here is a list of books and other reference materials for all the feyman fans out there!!
MAINLY ABOUT FEYNMAN
1. Surely you’re joking Mr. Feynman! By Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton.
2. What do you care what other people think? By Richard Feynman and Ralph Leighton.
3. Tuva or bust! By Ralph Leighton
4. No ordinary genius: the illustrated Richard Feynman by Christopher Sykes (editor)
This is the book which Feynman’s family and friends recommend as providing the most “true to life” image of the man.
ABOUT FEYNMAN’S LIFE AND WORK
1. Most of the good stuff by Laurie brown and john ridgen (editors)
2. Genius: Richard Feynman and modern physics by James gleick
3. The beat of a different drum by jagdish mehra
4. Disturbing the universe by freeman dyson
5. from Eros to Gaia by freeman dyson
6.NANO! By Ed Regis.
The impact of Feynman’s ideas about tiny machines is discussed in this book.
About quantum physics, including Feynman’s contributions
1. The character of physical law by Richard Feynman
2. QED: the strange theory of light and matter by Richard Feynman
3. Six easy pieces by Richard Feynman
4. Elementary particles and the laws of physics by Richard Feynman and Steven Weinberg
5. the Feynman lectures on physics by Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton and Matthew sands
6. Feynman lectures on gravitation by Richard Feynman, Fernando morinigo and William Wagner
7. in search of Schrödinger’s cat by john gribbin
8. Schrodinger’s kittens by john gribbin
9. QED and the men who made it by sylvan s.schweber
FEYNMAN: THE MAN
1. The art of Richard p.feynman by Michelle Feynman.
Many of Feynman’s drawings, and a few paintings, chosen and photographed by his daughter.
