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Cover of: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Phillips Feynman
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Cover of: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard Phillips Feynman

Contributors

  • As told to
    Ralph Leighton
  • Editor
    Edward Hutchings
  • Introduction
    Albert R. Hibbs

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Adventures of a Curious Character
Bantam trade edition from Bantam New Age Books
Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings.

Published April 1989 by Bantam Books in Toronto, New York .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Albert R. Hibbs ix
Vitals xi
Part I From Far Rockaway to MIT 1
He Fixes Radios by Thinking! 3
String Beans 12
Who Stole the Door? 17
Latin or Italian? 28
Always Trying to Escape 30
The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation 37
Part II The Princeton Years 45
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" 47
Meeeeeeeeeee! 53
A Map of the Cat? 56
Monster Minds 63
Mixing Paints 67
A Different Box of Tools 69
Mindreaders 72
The Amateur Scientist 74
Part 3 Feynman, the Bomb, and the Military 81
Fizzled Fuses 83
Testing Bloodhounds 87
Los Alamos from Below 90
Safecracker Meets Safecracker 119
Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You! 137
Part 4 From Cornell to Caltech, With a Touch of Brazil 147
The Dignified Professor 149
Any Questions? 158
I Want My Dollar! 162
You Just Ask Them? 165
Lucky Numbers 173
O Americano, Outra Vez! 179
Man of a Thousand Tongues 198
Certainly, Mr. Big! 199
An Offer You Must Refuse 209
Part 5 The World of One Physicist 215
Would You Solve the Dirac Equation? 217
The 7 Percent Solution 226
Thirteen Times 234
It Sounds Greek to Me! 235
But Is It Art? 236
Is Electricity Fire? 253
Judging Books by Their Covers 262
Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake 276
Bringing Culture to the Physicists 285
Found Out in Paris 290
Altered States 301
Cargo Cult Science 308
Index 319

Edition Notes

Has an index

Other Titles
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Copyright Date
1985

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
530/.092/4, B
Library of Congress
QC16.F49 A37 1989

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
322p.
Number of pages
322

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2062828M
Internet Archive
surelyyourejokin00feyn
ISBN 10
0553346687
LC Control Number
88047879
Library Thing
5655
Goodreads
927748

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