The Beat of a different Drum - The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

The Beat of a Different Drum
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
JAGDISH MEHRA

This definitive book deals with the life and scientific work of arguably
the greatest American-born theoretical physicist of the twentieth
century. He was a great teacher, a born showman, bongo drummer,
buffoon, and iconoclast; a scientific magician capable of transcendental
leaps of the imagination. During his career he was drawn into research
on the atomic bomb before working out his path-integral formulation
of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Subsequently
he developed the diagrammatic technique, as a result of which
Feynman diagrams became ubiquitous in quantum field theory,
elementary particle physics, and statistical mechanics. From 1950 he
was based at the California Institute of Technology, where he worked
on the superfluidity of liquid helium, the theory of polarons, the
theory of weak interactions, the quantum theory of gravitation,
partons, quark jets, and the limits of computation. Feynman had a
Unified view of physics and nature: he took the whole of nature as the-'
arena of his science and imagination.

ISBN 10 : 0-19-853948-7