What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman
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Author: Richard P. FeynmanContributor: Ralph Leighton
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01
ISBN: 0393320928
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Book Review: Every Scientist, Engineer and Caring Citizen should read
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book, several years ago and I read it even now, selected pages over and over again, when I need a source of inspiration.
Feynmann was one of the first rate scientists, even more, a first rate citizen. Few are lucky to live a life like he did, to have courage to live like he did, and to have the skill to write/express/explore like he did.
He was not only an exceptional scientist, but a gifted teacher who could teach other scientists how to be a scientist of the scientist and engineer of the engineers.
This book (as his almost all books, which I have) is a must read. An enjoyable journey of insight into his thinking, analysis, questioning attitude and utter honesty.
I am a professor at some university and this book influenced my thinking and approach profoundly to the extent that when I am confronted with teaching and understanding complex scientific stuff, I often wonder how Feynmann would do it, and I try my best to follow his example.
A treasure of candid thoughts and beautiful expositions of life experiences.
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Summary of What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
The best-selling sequel to "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"--funny, poignant, instructive. One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, which he prepared as he struggled with cancer. Among its many tales--some funny, others intensely moving--we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster's cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen. A New York Times bestseller.A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to determine the cause of the Challenger space shuttle explosion; and the scientific sleuthing behind his famously elegant O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other memoirs, but in some ways more profound.
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