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Feynman and Computation: Exploring the Limits of Computers.  Three papers by Feynman and 19 contributions address the advanced topics covered in the course on computation he taught at Caltech. Many of the contributions are updated versions of guest lectures. The five sections consider the evolution of his lectures, limitations due to size, limitations due to quantum mechanics, parallel computation, and fundamentals, such as reversible dynamics, action integrals, and the threat to the second law of thermodynamics posed by Maxwell's Demon.

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Feynman Lectures on ComputationFrom 1983 to 1986, the legendary physicist and teacher Richard Feynman gave a course at Caltech called Potentialities and Limitations of Computing Machines. Here are some of his lectures from that course.

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Feynman Lectures on Gravitation.  In 1962-63 Feynman offered a lecture course on gravitational physics for advanced graduate and postdoctoral fellows at the California Institute of Technology. Two students took notes on the 27 lectures, and Feynman edited and corrected the first 11; these were typed up and distributed to students and sold in the college bookstore. A further five lectures were added in a 1971 edition, though the editing was not as rigorous. Here they are again, indexed and referenced. Feynman never got around to editing the rest of the lectures, so they are not included.

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Statistical Mechanics: A Set of Lectures (Advanced Book Classics).  Physics, rather than mathematics, is the focus in this classic graduate lecture-note volume on statistical mechanics and the physics of condensed matter. Containing many original contributions to the field, the book provides a concise introduction to basic concepts and a clear presentation of difficult topics, while challenging the student to reflect upon as yet unanswered questions.

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Photon-Hadron Interactions (Advanced Book Classics). A classic from 1972, this book by renowned physicist Richard Feynman analyzes the theoretical questions related to electron and photon interactions at high energies. This advanced-level material includes discussions of vector meson dominance and deep inelastic scattering. Also analyzed are the possible consequences of the parton model.

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The Theory of Fundamental Processes (Advanced Book Classics) by Alan Van Heuvelen, Richard Feynman. 

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Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun.  In 1964 Richard Feynman delivered a lecture to the Caltech freshman class, "The Motion of Planets Around the Sun" -- why the planets move elliptically, as Isaac Newton had discovered 300 years earlier. The subject of this lecture was the watershed discovery that separated the ancient world from the modern. In this book/CD package, Feynman's lecture has been reconstructed and explained in meticulous, accessible detail, together with a history of ideas of the planets' motions. Packaged with a CD that furnishes the complete text of the lecture, this fascinating look at the work of one of the most brilliant theoretical scientists of the twentieth century meticulously reconstructs a 1964 lecture on the mathematics of the elliptical motion of the planets around the sun.

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