Book:Richard P. Feynman/Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a Curious Character
Published $\text {1985}$, Vintage
- ISBN 0-09-917331-X
Contents
- Preface (Ralph Leighton)
- Introduction (Albert R. Hibbs)
- Vitals
- Part 1: 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
- Part 2: 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
- Part 3: FEYNMAN, THE BOMB, AND THE MILITARY
- Fizzled Fuses
- Testing Bloodhounds
- Los Alamos from Below
- Safecracker Meets Safecracker
- Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You!
- Part 4: FROM CORNELL TO CALTECH, WITH A TOUCH OF BRAZIL
- The Dignified Professor
- Any Questions?
- I Want My Dollar!
- You Just Ask Then?
- Lucky Numbers
- O Americano, Outra Vez!
- Man of a Thousand Tongues
- Certainly, Mr. Big!
- An Offer You Must Refuse
- Part 5: 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
- Index
Sources
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Feynman, Richard Phillips (1918-88)