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 Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman
Vintage.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was also a man
who fell, often jumped, into adventure - as artist, safe-cracker, practical
joker and storyteller. He solved the mystery of liquid helium, was commissioned
to paint a naked (female) toreador, explained physics to the likes of Einstein
and Von Neumann, accompanied ballet on the bongo drums, and was judged mentally
deficient by a US Army psychiatrist.
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 What Do You Care
What Other People Think
HarperCollins Trade. This is his
last anecdotal autobiography in which he tells the story of the two people who
most influenced his early years - his father, who taught him to think, and his
first wife Arlene who taught him to love, even as she lay dying at an
Albuquerque hospital while Feynman worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los
Alamos. In the second part, Feynman gives a behind-the-scenes account of the
investigation that followed the space shuttle "Challenger"'s explosion in
January 1986.
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 Feynman's Lost Lecture: The motion of the planets around the
sun
Vintage. By David L. Goostein and Judith R
Goodstein
Richard Feynman, the rock star of theoretical physics, has left an
image that belies the nerdy side revealed in Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion
of Planets Around the Sun. Not many bongo-playing surfer beatniks would have
spent hours of their spare time proving Newton's law of elliptical planetary
motion using only plane geometry, but Feynman's Lost Lecture shows that the
great man did just that. Originally delivered to an introductory physics class
at Caltech in 1963, this book contains everything the maths-savvy listener
needs to savour the pleasures of applied maths.
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