Don't be kidding, Mr. Feynman -- The Adventures of a Eccentric Genius

Author: R.P. Feynman [USA]
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The stories in this book were collected sporadically and casually during the seven years I spent happily drumming with Richard Feynman. I found that each story has its own unique charm, and when gathered together, they form a grand collection. A person's life can indeed be filled with so many wonderful and mad things, sometimes unbelievable. That one person could invent so many unintentional pranks throughout his life is enough to enlighten the dull! This book merely touches upon the essence of his life: science. Here and there, we can see that as background material, science is just glanced over rather than treated as the focal point of his life, but his generations of students and colleagues know the weight science holds in his life. Perhaps this is how the book should be written. Maybe there really is no way to organize the stories about him and his work. Challenges and setbacks, the excitement of gaining insights, the deep joy brought by understanding science—these are the sources of his life's happiness.