Comments on: Lawrence Krauss’s Feynman Biography Now Available http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/03/24/lawrence-krausss-feynman-biography-now-available/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Noah http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/03/24/lawrence-krausss-feynman-biography-now-available/#comment-93709 Noah Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:51:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=16934#comment-93709 http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2103 GIVE HER TO FEYNMAN!!! http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2103

GIVE HER TO FEYNMAN!!!

]]> By: Curious Wavefunction http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/03/24/lawrence-krausss-feynman-biography-now-available/#comment-93705 Curious Wavefunction Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:08:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=16934#comment-93705 <i>-It’s just that having a top physicist do a scientific biography of Feynman’s accomplishments is something pretty unique.</i> Actually the most comprehensive and definitive scientific biography of Feynman is Jagdish Mehra's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beat-Different-Drum-Science-Richard/dp/0198518870/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300979141&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">"The Beat of a Different Drum"</a>. Unlike both Krauss and Gleick, Mehra knew Feynman quite well and had extensive conversations with him about his science. Unfortunately the biography is packed with equations and physics and is far less accessible to the layman, but it still stands as the most comprehensive scientific biography of Feynman and is an indispensable addition to the Feynman shelf. -It’s just that having a top physicist do a scientific biography of Feynman’s accomplishments is something pretty unique.

Actually the most comprehensive and definitive scientific biography of Feynman is Jagdish Mehra’s “The Beat of a Different Drum”. Unlike both Krauss and Gleick, Mehra knew Feynman quite well and had extensive conversations with him about his science. Unfortunately the biography is packed with equations and physics and is far less accessible to the layman, but it still stands as the most comprehensive scientific biography of Feynman and is an indispensable addition to the Feynman shelf.

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