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FEYNMAN, RICHARD P. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, CONSISTING OF CALCULATIONS AND DIAGRAMS ON A BRAZILIAN LP SLEEVE, CA 1950
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描述
- "(x1-x2)2 (x3-x4)2 + (x1-x3)2 (x2-x4)2 + (x1-x4)2 (x2-x3)2", ca 1951.
Autograph manuscript, 1 page, in pencil, (11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in) on verso of LP sleeve from W.M. Reis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
拍品資料及來源
A NICE EXAMPLE OF FEYNMAN'S QUICK SKETCHWORK OF CALCULATIONAL DETAILS. Here, a classic Feynman mix of algebraic, trigonometric, and graphical elements. In center, on verso, 3 diagrams labeled as such, accompanied by their statistical weights- 6,12,2 which multiply their quadratic contributions.
"Feynman would do his work, not on block paper, but on paper laying around" (Physicist John Archibald Wheeler, Feynman's collaborator and PhD advisor at Princeton, in: Sykes, Christopher No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman, p. 47)
"Feynman would do his work, not on block paper, but on paper laying around" (Physicist John Archibald Wheeler, Feynman's collaborator and PhD advisor at Princeton, in: Sykes, Christopher No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman, p. 47)