The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 3 by Richard P. Feynman

And the core chapters use more standard methods that makes everything clearer to the beginner. The more original chapters were in fact on extra material like electricity in atmosphere, the principle of least action, or curved spacetime, which are the ones that a deep understanding is less relevant, and originality make them much more interesting. However, this book is more balanced in my opinion. Once again it presents the material in a rather original fashion, which makes it more interesting for who already knows what is going on and more confusing for a beginner. My opinion about this book is very similar to the first one. He held the Richard Chace Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at Caltech. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology (creation of devices at the molecular scale). He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. During his lifetime and after his death, Feynman became one of the most publicly known scientists in the world. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams.

For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model).

The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 3 by Richard P. Feynman