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标 题: Richard P.Feynman - The Meaning of It All(1)
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THE MEANING OF IT ALL
by Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman was one of this century's most brilliant
theoretical physicists and original thinkers. Born in Far Rockaway,
New York, in 1918, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where he graduated with a BS in 1939. He went on to
Princeton and received his Ph.D. in 1942. During the war years he worked
at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He became Professor of
Theoretical Physics at Cornell University, where he worked with Hans
Bethe. He all but rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics and it
was for this work that he shared the Nobel Prize in 1965. His simplified
rules of calculation became standard tools of theoretical analysis in
both quantum electrodynamics and high-energy physics. Feynman was a
visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology in 1950,
where he later accepted a permanent faculty appointment, and became
Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1959. He had an
extraordinary ability to communicate his science to audiences at all
levels, and was a well-known and popular lecturer. Richard Feynman
died in 1988 after a long illness. Freeman Dyson, of the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, called him 'the most original
mind of his generation', while in its obituary The New York Times
described him as 'arguably the most brilliant, iconoclastic and
influential of the postwar generation of theoretical physicists'.
A number of collections and adaptations of his lectures have been
published, including The Feynman Lectures on Physics, QED (Penguin,
1990), The Character of Physical Law (Penguin, 1992), Six Easy Pieces
(Penguin, 1998), The Meaning of It All (Penguin, 1999) and Six
Not-So-Easy
Pieces (Allen Lane, 1998; Penguin, 1999). The Feynman Lectures on
Gravitation and The Feynman Lectures on Computation are both forthcoming
in Penguin. His memoirs, Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, were
published in 1985.
The Meaning of It All
Richard P. Feynman
Contents
I.The Uncertainty of Science
II.The Uncertainty of Values
III.This Unscientific Age
These lectures, given in April 1963, are published here for the first
time. We are grateful to Carl Feynman and Michelle Feynman for making
this book possible.
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