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

Name: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Rating: 4.3231597845601435 (557 reviews)
Author: Richard P. Feynman
ISBN: 9780553256499

by Richard P. Feynman, Микола Климчук, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings

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(557 ratings)

Feynman #1391 pages7 editions1985BantamISBN 9780553256499

Biography

About this book

Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets; accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums; painting a naked female toreador. In short, here is Feynman's life in all its eccentric—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah.

Publication Details

Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1985
Pages: 391
ISBN: 9780553256499
Language: en
Editions: 7

About Richard P. Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. - Wikipedia