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Title: Statistical Mechanics: A Set of Lectures (Advanced Book Classics) by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0-201-36076-4 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Style over substance.
Comment: Feynman was one of the most accomplished physicists in the 2nd half of the 20th century. His publications speak for themselves. However, as represented in this set of lecture notes, for example, I do not find him as a pedagogue more enlightening than others. I bought and read this book in grad school, and found it to be a nice quick intro to several topics (spin waves and such). I did not, and still don't find the exposition physically exceptionally profound. One difference though, is the fact that Feynman, with his fame, could afford to be rather informal in his presentation. Any unsatisfactory aspects would be accepted as the mysterious ways of a 'genius'. If you are a student and would like to learn to solve problems on your own, forget this one. What this book gives you is a little 'attitude', aside from a quick intro, which most of us haven't earned the right to put on, of doing physics. Try it. Try to be as unorthodox and informal as he was, and you will mostly end up with nonsense.
Rating: 5
Summary: extraordinary Masterpiece!
Comment: Richard Feynman said:"What I cannot create, I do not understand!". I am really amazed by his unique style of doing physics: he always create anything from scratch, always has his unique point of view, even on an old problem. All I can say about Feynman is Genius!!!
This book is about Feynman's extraordinary viewpoint on statistical mechanics. I can bet that this is an unique S.M book.
but i don't think it's for beginner, I suggest you should finish a standard statistical mechanics course before you read this one.
I can not find suitable words to admire this great book, so I quit here, but in the end, I strongly recommend this book to all physicists, physics-major students!
Rating: 5
Summary: Statistics that "moos you along"
Comment: A classic by one of the best. I wish I could say I understand
it all, but it rings true in many ways. His famous quote
"I can definitely say that Nobody understands Quantum Mechanics"
is perhaps this biggest "Moo Clue".
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Title: Quantum Electrodynamics (Advanced Book Classics) by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0201360756 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $44.00 |
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Title: Statistical Physics : Volume 5 by E M Lifshitz, L D Landau ISBN: 0750633727 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Pub. Date: 01 January, 1980 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Feynman Lectures on Gravitation by Richard B. Feynman, Fernando Mornigo, William Wagner, Brian Hatfield, Richard Phillips Feynman, Fernando B. Morinigo ISBN: 0813340381 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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Title: Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures by Richard P. Feynman, Steven Weinberg ISBN: 0521658624 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Photon-Hadron Interactions (Advanced Book Classics) by Richard Phillips Feynman ISBN: 0201360748 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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