出版社: Random House Inc
副标题: Character of Physical Law
出版年: 1997-6-1
页数: 192
定价: GBP 14.99
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679601272
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In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have found it out, but . . . how clever...
In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have found it out, but . . . how clever nature is to pay attention to it," and tends his discussions toward a final exposition of the elegance and simplicity of all scientific laws. Rather than an essay on the most significant achievements in modern science, The Character of Physical Law is a statement of what is most remarkable in nature. Feynman's enlightened approach, his wit, and his enthusiasm make this a memorable exposition of the scientist's craft.<br /> <br /> The Law of Gravitation is the author's principal example. Relating the details of its discovery and stressing its mathematical character, he uses it to demonstrate the essential interaction of mathematics and physics. He views mathematics as the key to any system of scientific laws, suggesting that if it were possible to fill out the structure of scientific theory completely, the result would be an integrated set of mathematical axioms. The principles of conservation, symmetry, and time-irreversibility are then considered in relation to developments in classical and modern physics, and in his final lecture Feynman develops his own analysis of the process and future of scientific discovery.<br /> <br /> Like any set of oral reflections, The Character of Physical Law has special value as a demonstration of the mind in action. The reader is particularly lucky in Richard Feynman. One of the most eminent and imaginative modern physicists, he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology until his death in 1988. He is best known for his work on the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, as well as for his later research in the field of low-temperature physics. In 1954 he received the Albert Einstein Award for his "outstanding contribution to knowledge in mathematical and physical sciences"; in 1965 he was appointed to Foreign Membership in the Royal Society and was awarded the Nobel Prize.
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0 有用 OD 2011-05-21 21:19:00
纯属拿来练英语的。我记得大一的时候江舟还跟我说过钱家哪个大牛是大二才开始学物理的。可我觉得我这辈子都看不懂这些东西。
0 有用 蔚蓝色的天空 2013-12-31 00:17:12
感动啊... 感动啊...
0 有用 尉迟恭 2020-12-17 14:38:54
守恒律与对称性讲的真好。
0 有用 江心庐 2020-02-09 16:52:38
关于物理定律很诚实的讲述。第二章, the relationship of methematics to physics, 有感触其中想法: physics is the connection of words with real life; mathemics is for resoning.
0 有用 大地滴嗒 2015-07-02 09:59:58
很好看。讽刺哲学家竟然毫不掩饰~
0 有用 尉迟恭 2020-12-17 14:38:54
守恒律与对称性讲的真好。
0 有用 江心庐 2020-02-09 16:52:38
关于物理定律很诚实的讲述。第二章, the relationship of methematics to physics, 有感触其中想法: physics is the connection of words with real life; mathemics is for resoning.
0 有用 纯情又生动 2019-06-30 06:52:55
费曼yyds
0 有用 例如张三 2015-10-05 11:56:21
一本薄薄的小册子,物理小王子费曼讲座实录
0 有用 大地滴嗒 2015-07-02 09:59:58
很好看。讽刺哲学家竟然毫不掩饰~