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

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I would highly recommend “ The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” as a much more thought-provoking book. In it, Feynman tells stories and searches for meaning in life and physics and takes the reader along. Feynman, R. P. (August 1939). "Forces in Molecules". Physical Review. American Physical Society. 56 (4): 340–343. Bibcode: 1939PhRv...56..340F. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.56.340. S2CID 121972425. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020 . Retrieved May 20, 2019. Mehra, J. (2002). "Richard Phillips Feynman 11 May 1918– 15 February 1988". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 97–128. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.2002.0007. S2CID 62221940. Overview of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". wwnorton.com. W. W. Norton & Company. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. The Challenger (2013), a BBC Two factual drama starring William Hurt, tells the story of American Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's determination to reveal the truth behind the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Feynman, Richard P. (1950). "Mathematical formulation of the quantum theory of electromagnetic interaction". Physical Review. 80 (3): 440–457. Bibcode: 1950PhRv...80..440F. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.80.440. Archived from the original on September 14, 2020 . Retrieved May 20, 2019. Feynman is a personal hero of mine, and this is one of the greatest autobiographies ever written. It is genuinely funny, and if you come away from it without wanting to know more about how things really work, well, you’re dead to me. Let’s go out with a quote, because I’ve exhausted my word-bag. Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman: Adventures Of A Curious Character is a compilation of the conversations that author and Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, Richard P. Feynman, had with his friend, Ralph Leighton.

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His other books include The Feynman Lectures on Physics and What Do You Care What Other People Think? Hoyle, F.; Narlikar, J. V. (1964). "A New Theory of Gravitation". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 282 (1389): 191–207. Bibcode: 1964RSPSA.282..191H. doi: 10.1098/rspa.1964.0227. S2CID 59402270.

I can't still blame a reader if they felt what I described above, as I also felt the same in some parts of this book. There are innumerable positives in this book that will cancel all the above negatives easily. Cosmology: Math Plus Mach Equals Far-Out Gravity". Time. June 26, 1964. Archived from the original on December 13, 2011 . Retrieved August 7, 2010. Dyson, F. J. (1949). "The radiation theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman". Physical Review. 75 (3): 486–502. Bibcode: 1949PhRv...75..486D. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.75.486. Brian, Denis (2001). The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus. ISBN 978-0-7382-0447-5. OCLC 751292707.Feynman was born on May 11, 1918, in Queens, New York City, [2] to Lucille ( néePhillips; 1895–1981), a homemaker, and Melville Arthur Feynman (1890–1946), a sales manager. [3] Feynman's father was born into a Jewish family in Minsk, Belarus [4] (then part of the Russian Empire) and emigrated with his parents to the United States at the age of five. Feynman's mother was born in the United States into a Jewish family. Lucille's father had emigrated from Poland, and her mother also came from a family of Polish immigrants. She trained as a primary school teacher but married Melville in 1917, before taking up a profession. [2] [3] Feynman was a late talker and did not speak until after his third birthday. As an adult, he spoke with a New York accent [5] [6] strong enough to be perceived as an affectation or exaggeration, [7] [8] so much so that his friends Wolfgang Pauli and Hans Bethe once commented that Feynman spoke like a "bum". [7] Tindol, Robert (December 2, 1999). "Physics World poll names Richard Feynman one of 10 greatest physicists of all time" (Press release). California Institute of Technology . Retrieved June 10, 2023. The title of this collection comes from a tale that took place early in Feynman's career where he was invited for an afternoon tea with the dean of his university. The dean's wife i