by Richard Feynman · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483107188
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In this book, Richard P. Feynman presents nature as something simple and beautiful, highlighting the importance of elegance and simplicity in the formulation of scientific laws. Feynman brings us closer to fundamental concepts of physics, such as the law of gravity, the discoveries of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein, and notions such as conservation, symmetry, the irreversibility of time, and quantum mechanics. This book, based on the 1964 Messenger Lectures, is an enjoyable and didactic introduction to physical laws and scientific work.
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles". He is also known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and the parton model. Feynman developed a pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams and remains widely used.
