The Beat of a Different Drum – The life and science of Richard Feyman – Jagdish Mehra

Jagdish Mehra personally knew Richard Feynman well for thirty years and had many occasions to talk to him about his life and scientific work. In this major, authoritative and admirable biography of Feynman, Mehra has discussed all of Feynman’s principal scientific accomplishments in detail – quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, superfluidity of liquid helium, polarons, weak interaction theory, quantum gravity, partons, quark jets, and quantum computers – against the backdrop of the human side of his life. Any reader will find here a full and charming account of Feynman’s unique life and personality, while a technically interested person will be rewarded to have a thorough discussion of Feynman’s scientific achievements. The author and the Oxford University Press are to be congratulated for publishing this major work on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Feynman’s birth.