"What Do You Care What Other People Think?" – Further Adventures of a Curious Character - Softcover

Feynman, Richard P.; Leighton, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393320928 ISBN 13: 9780393320923

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2001 Pages: 256 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. One of the greatest physicists particularly of the twentieth century. Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ABILITY to tell the stories of his life. What Do You Care What Other People Think is Feynman's last literary legacy. which he prepared as he struggled with cancer. Among its many tales-some funny. others intensely moving-we meet Feynman's first wife. Arlene. who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in 1986. and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster's cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling...

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Feynman s voice echoes raw and direct through these pages.--James Gleick"

Feynman's voice echoes raw and direct through these pages.--James Gleick

From the Back Cover:

'There were, it was said, only two ways of solving difficult problems in physics. One was to use mathematics; the other was to ask Feynman'
JOHN NAUGHTON, 'Observer'

Richard P. Feynman, who died in 1988, was indeed a curious character – irreverently funny, sometimes humble, sometimes shamelessly immodest, often profound, but always brilliantly and brimming with an infectios enthusiasm for finding things out.

'What Do You care What Other People Think'
is an engaging collection of stories, memories and letters from the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, accomplished bongo-player and artist, and includes 'Mr Feynman goes to Washington', an account of the vital role he played in the investigation into the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster.

'For Feynman, life in general and physics in particular were a hugely exciting game, played with boundless energy and panache'
PAUL DAVIES, 'Guardian'

'There were, it was said, only two ways of solving difficult problems in physics. One was to use mathematics; the other was to ask Feynman'
JOHN NAUGHTON, 'Observer'

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0393320928
• ISBN 13: 9780393320923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256