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Author Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.

Title The pleasure of finding things out : the best short works of Richard P. Feynman / by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins ; foreword by Freeman Dyson.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : Perseus Books, 2000.
©1999

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  Q171 .F385 2000    Available  ---
Description xvi, 270 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Helix books
Helix book.
Note Includes index.
Contents 15 505 0 The pleasure of finding things out -- Computing machines in the future -- Los Alamos from below -- What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -- There's plenty of room at the bottom -- The value of science -- Richard P. Feynman's minority report to the space shuttle Challenger inquiry -- What is science? -- The smartest man in the world -- Cargo cult science: some remarks on science, pseudoscience, and learning how to not fool yourself -- It's as simple as one, two, three -- Richard Feynman builds a universe -- The relation of science and religion.
Subject Science.
Science.
Added Author Robbins, Jeffrey.
ISBN 0738203491 paperback