Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by FEYNMAN,RICHARD

• ISBN13: 9780393316049
• ISBN10: 0393316041
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON

Summary

In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize­-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(2)
Albert R. Hibbs
Vitals	11	(4)
Part 1 FROM FAR ROCKAWAY TO MIT	15	(44)
He Fixes Radios by Thinking!	15	(10)
String Beans	25	(5)
Who Stole the Door?	30	(12)
Latin or Italian?	42	(3)
Always Trying to Escape	45	(8)
The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation	53	(6)
Part 2 THE PRINCETON YEARS	59	(40)
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"	59	(7)
Meeeeeeeeeee!	66	(3)
A Map of the Cat?	69	(8)
Monster Minds	77	(4)
Mixing Paints	81	(3)
A Different Box of Tools	84	(4)
Mindreaders	88	(3)
The Amateur Scientist	91	(8)
Part 3 FEYNMAN, THE BOMB, AND THE MILITARY	99	(66)
Fizzled Fuses	99	(5)
Testing Bloodhounds	104	(3)
Los Alamos from Below	107	(30)
Safecracker Meets Safecracker	137	(19)
Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You!	156	(9)
Part 4 FROM CORNELL TO CALTECH WITH A TOUCH OF BRAZIL	165	(72)
The Dignified Professor	165	(10)
Any Questions?	175	(5)
I Want My Dollar!	180	(4)
You Just Ask Them?	184	(8)
Lucky Numbers	192	(7)
O Americano, Outra Vez!	199	(21)
Man of a Thousand Tongues	220	(1)
Certainly, Mr. Big!	221	(11)
An Offer You Must Refuse	232	(5)
Part 5 THE WORLD OF ONE PHYSICIST	237	(110)
Would You Solve the Dirac Equation?	237	(10)
The 7 Percent Solution	247	(9)
Thirteen Times	256	(2)
It Sounds Greek to Me!	258	(2)
But Is It Art?	260	(19)
Is Electricity Fire?	279	(9)
Judging Books by Their Covers	288	(15)
Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake	303	(10)
Bringing Culture to the Physicists	313	(5)
Found Out in Paris	318	(12)
Altered States	330	(8)
Cargo Cult Science	338	(9)
Index	347