Six NotSoEasy Pieces, Richard P. Feynman
Six NotSoEasy Pieces, Richard P. Feynman
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time

Author: Richard P. Feynman

Narrator: Richard P. Feynman

Unabridged: 5 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 07/15/2025

Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Physics


Synopsis

Learn about Einstein's theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessons It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures at the California Institute of Technology that revolutionized the teaching of physics. In Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, taken from these famous Lectures on Physics, Feynman delves into one of the most revolutionary discoveries in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's theory of relativity. The idea that the flow of time is not a constant, that the mass of an object depends on its velocity, and that the speed of light is a constant no matter what the motion of the observer, at first seemed shocking to scientists and laymen alike. But as Feynman shows, these tricky ideas are not merely dry principles of physics, but things of beauty and elegance.
 
No one — not even Einstein himself — explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Feynman. Filled with wonderful examples, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible physicists of all time.
 
“There is no better explanation for the scientifically literate layman.” –Washington Post Book World

About Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) earned a BS from MIT and a PhD from Princeton. From 1942 to 1945, he assisted with the development of the atomic bomb. He then taught at Cornell and Caltech, where he contributed to the theories of superfluidity and quarks. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Prerna on December 23, 2021

I've been binge-studying lately. You know, lose-your-sleep-over-it-and-forget-to-eat kind of binge-studying. I barely even remember that I have a phone anymore because I make sure to keep it out of sight. I'd love to say it's because I'm passionate about physics and that the muses smiled upon me and......more

Goodreads review by Kevin Lopez (on sabbatical) on June 29, 2020

Feynman is, as ever, utterly ingenious in his ease of explication here, especially given that the concepts covered in this volume are more advanced than those covered in the previous one, “Six Easy Pieces” (as cheekily indicated by the title, “Six Not-So-Easy Pieces”) In this collection of transcribe......more

Goodreads review by Roy on April 05, 2015

All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas. It is difficult to review these books, as their titles are so descriptive. This book, as well as its companion, Six Easy Pieces, is a book that can judged......more

Goodreads review by Rama on February 20, 2014

Learn Relativity from the maestro Richard Feynman himself In the introduction to this book, Roger Penrose, another great theoretical physicist of our times, states that "Relativity is not airy-fairy philosophy, nor is space-time mere mathematical formalism. It is a foundational ingredient of the very......more

Goodreads review by Kadircan on July 14, 2016

Kendisi de ünlü bir fizikçi olan Feynman tarafından kaleme alınmış bu kitap, Einstein'ın Görelilik Kuramı'nı ve onunla ilişkilendirilebilecek diğer kavramları anlaşılır kılmayı amaçlıyor. Kütleçekim, uzayzaman, yüksek hızlarda hareket gibi kavramlar pek çok açıdan insan algısının sınırlarını zorlaya......more


Quotes

“There is no better explanation for the scientifically literate layman.”—Washington Post Book World