Dimensions
145 x 224 x 21mm
'Feynman's Rainbow' is the most vivid and revealing portrait yet of Richard Feynman, drawing on intimate conversations with the great physicist to offer an unprecedented insight into his inspirations life and work.
Leonard Mlodinow first encountered Feynman in 1981, arriving as a young, uncertain and terrified graduate researcher at the prestigious California Institute of Technology. Awestruck when he learnt that the legendary Nobel Prize-winner had an office down the hall, he eventually plucked up the courage to knock on the door and the two men got talking. This is the moving story of the relationship that developed between them, and how it changed Mlodinow's life.
Over the next few years they would meet frequently and Mlodinow began to record their extraordinary conversations, eventually transcribing them in this book. We see Feynman unfolding his thoughts on the nature of creativity, his rivalry with colleague Murray Gell-Mann, his love for the women in his life, and the cancer that would kill him.
