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Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun is a book based on a lecture by Richard Feynman. Restoration of the lecture notes and conversion into book form was undertaken by Caltech physicist David L. Goodstein and archivist Judith R. Goodstein.
- Richard Feynman
- 1996
Jun 17, 1996 · This book describes in a beautiful and comprehensible way Kepler’s three laws of planetary motion, and how Newton (and later Feynman) demonstrated the proof geometrically. The authors expand the proofs even beyond Feynman’s presentation (who expanded on Newton’s approach) to fill in a few gaps.
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- Richard P. Feynman, David Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein
On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled ‘The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun’. For thirty years this remarkable lecture was believed to be lost.
Nov 6, 2009 · David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their effort to chase down one of Feynman's most original and scintillating lectures.
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David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their...
Nov 6, 2009 · David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their effort to...
Aug 19, 2014 · Feynman's lost lecture. by. David L. Goodstein. Publication date. 1997. Topics. Feynman, Richard Phillips, Celestial mechanics, Planets -- Orbits. Publisher. Vintage.