"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character, Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings

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"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character, Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings

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adventures of a curious character

Statement of responsibility

Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings

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• "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character

Publication

• New York, W.W. Norton, ©1985

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Includes index

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

pt. I. 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 -- pt. II. 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 -- pt. III. Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses -- Testing bloodhounds -- Los Alamos from below -- Safecracker meets safecracker -- Uncle Sam doesn't need you! -- pt. IV. 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 -- pt. V. 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

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22 cm

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350 pages

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9780393019216

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84014703 //r89

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91107

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