I am reading Paul Nahin's "When Least Is Best" and I find the style really good. Is there any such book for physics?
In other words, I would like a book which describes the concepts of physics as how we reached them and how we had been so foolish initially. It can also include problems and its different methods attempted by different physicists.
If you have read the above mentioned book, you would better be able to know what I would like to have.
QED and the men who made it gives a great historical account of the early history of quantum electrodyanmics.
The book sketches the personalities of Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga and many of their students. They also show the derivations that were made by those pioneers without to much "modernization". (Note that this makes the book rather difficult to understand)
I would definitely recommend this book but it is by no means easy to read lecture.
