Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
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Author: Ralph Leighton, Richard P. FeynmanEditor: Edward Hutchings
Introduction: Albert R. Hibbs
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-04-17
ISBN: 0393316041
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Book Review: An extraordinary individual
Summary: 5 Stars
It is hard to imagine that a man who stands like a colossus among physicists over time thinks that the whole thing is actually pretty simple and easy-this book is all about that. Nothing extraordinary about it. As they say, the more elevated the intellect, the more humble the man...read it to believe it. A must for the high school geek taking a keen interest in physics.
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Summary of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
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. A New York Times bestseller; more than 500,000 copies sold.A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith
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