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Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! : adventures of a curious character
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In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Gr...
In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts 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. Photos.
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- Creator
- Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings
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- English
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- 1st Norton pbk. ed
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1997
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- 350 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0393316041, 9780393316049
- OCLC
- ocn905905022, ocm37123233
- Includes index.
- From Far Rockaway to MIT. He fixes radios by thinking! ; String beans ; Who stole the door? ; Latin or Italian? ; Always trying to escape ; The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation -- The Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" ; Meeeeeeeeeee! ; A map of the cat? ; Monster minds ; Mixing paints ; A different box of tools ; Mindreaders ; The amateur scientist -- Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses ; Testing bloodhounds ; Los Alamos from below ; Safecracker meets safecracker ; Uncle Sam doesn't need you! -- From Cornell to Caltech, with a touch of Brazil. The dignified professor ; Any questions? ; I want my dollar! ; You just ask them? ; Lucky numbers ; O Americano, outra vez! ; Man of a thousand tongues ; Certainly, Mr. Big! ; An offer you must refuse -- The world of one physicist. Would you solve the Dirac equation? ; The 7 percent solution ; Thirteen times ; It sounds Greek to me! ; But is it art? ; Is electricity fire? ; Judging books by their covers ; Alfred Nobel's other mistake ; Bringing culture to the physicists ; Found out in Paris ; Altered states ; Cargo cult science