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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P Feynman
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780393316049 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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.
Review:
"Anyone who can read it without laughing out loud is crazy." Los Angeles Times Book Review
Review:
"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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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780393316049
- Subtitle:
- Adventures of a Curious Character
- Editor:
- Hutchings, Edward
- Leighton, Ralph:
- As Told to
- Editor:
- Hutchings, Edward
- Author:
- 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
- Copyright:
- c198
- 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.
