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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P Feynman

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character Cover

ISBN13: 9780393316049
ISBN10: 0393316041
Condition: Standard
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Richard Feynman was a great scientist, a winner of the Nobel Prize, remembered equally for his laboratory work on liquid helium and his wonderful, unquenchable vitality and sense of humor. His lighthearted approach to life made his lectures a delight and his scientific accomplishments all the more intriguing. Feynman was interested in everything. He painted, traded ideas with Einstein and Bohr, calculated odds with Nick the Greek, accompanied ballet on the bongos. Here is Feynman's astonishing life story — a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, eternal skepticism, and raging chutzpah.

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"Anyone who can read it without laughing out loud is crazy." Los Angeles Times Book Review

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"Raymond Todd gives an extraordinary performance bringing to evanescent life the amusing adventures of this Nobel prize-winning physicist....Refreshingly honest, iconoclastic, thought-provoking, this one-of-a-kind classic is a must for every collection." Peter Josyph, Library Journal

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"Proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time." New York Times Book Review

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"Quintessential Feynman — funny, brilliant, bawdy...enormously entertaining." The New Yorker

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"Buzzing with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist." Science Digest

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"A storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain. He proves once again thatit is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time." New York Times Book Review

Synopsis:

The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature.

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In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize--winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. New York Times bestseller A selection of Book-of-the-Month Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Newbridge Book Clubs More than 500,000 copies sold

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Elaine, July 27, 2009 (view all comments by Elaine)
Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with an amazing breadth of scientific achievements. This is an autobiography which is a set of quirky anecdotes of his life. It ranges from his experiences playing with a samba school during Mardi Gras in Brazil while he was living there for part of a year, his attempts to meet women, to his times discussing physics with Niels Bohr at Los Alamos while working on the atom bomb. The book consists of a large series of vignettes, mostly disconnected so you can just pick it up and read a story or two. You don't need to know any science to enjoy it, although being a scientist might help you recognize some of his behavior...
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780393316049
Subtitle:
Adventures of a Curious Character
Editor:
Hutchings, Edward
Leighton, Ralph:
As Told to
Editor:
Hutchings, Edward
Author:
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Leighton, Ralph:
As Told to
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Science
Subject:
Physicists
Subject:
Scientists
Subject:
Feynman, richard phillips, 1918-1988
Subject:
Science -- Humor.
Subject:
Scientists - General
Subject:
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Subject:
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st pbk. ed.
Series Volume:
no. 708
Publication Date:
April 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
350
Dimensions:
8.24x5.52x.86 in. .73 lbs.

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