The Property of Christopher Sykes

FEYNMAN, RICHARD P.

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985

Octavo. 158 pp., with 93 numbered figures in text, including Feynman diagrams. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (laid endpapers; spine lettered in violet; advert for Peierls Bird of passage on dust-jacket, lower flap). Publisher's black cloth, all edges trimmed and plain. In the original color-pictorial dust-jacket priced $18.50. Small crease and chip to upper panel of jacket, mild crease to front free end-paper, else fine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED ON HALF-TITLE "TO CHRISTOPHER SYKES/ RICHARD FEYNMAN".

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, PRESENTATION COPY FROM FEYNMAN TO HIS LONGTIME DOCUMENTARIAN. FEYNMAN'S LAST BOOK; A VIVID EXPOSITION OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS B🐎Y ITS GREATEST MASTER. This was THE HEART OF FEYNMAN’S WORK, and precisely the field in which he’d won his Nobel Prize — that is, for his “fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing conse-quences for the physics of elementary particles”. Distilled from a series of lectures at UCLA in 1983, this book was Feynman’s only non-technical account of the subject: Gleick calls it a model of science writing.

PROVENANCE:

Christopher Sykes (b. 1945), Feynman’s longtime documentarian (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out 1981, No Ordinary Genius 1993, etc), from the author as above. Se✤e eg M. Feynman “Fun to imagine”, TEDxCaltech 2011