Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures o...

A series of anecdotes, such as are included in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, 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 this engagingly eccentric book. 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?"),...

.co.uk A series of anecdotes, such as are included in Surely Youre Joking, Mr Feynman , shouldnt by rights add up to an autobiography, but thats just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in this engagingly ecc

Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Titelzusatz: Adventures of a curious character, Autor: Feynman, Richard P., Verlag: Random House UK Ltd, Imprint: Arrow Books, Originalsprache: Englisch, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: Englische Bücher // Naturwissenschaften // Physik // Astronomie // Erinnerung // Philosophie // Pädagogik // Wissenschaften // Feynman // Richard P // Physiker, Rubrik: Physik // Astronomie, Allgemeines, Lexika,...

Subtitled, ''Adventures Of A Curious Character As Told To Ralph Leighton''. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.