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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize –winning physicist Richard Feynman . The book, published in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life.
Further Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collections of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1988, the book covers several instances in Feynman's life and was prepared from recorded audio conversations that he had with Ralph Leighton , his close friend and drumming partner.
Ralph Leighton (/ ˈ l eɪ t ən / LAY-tən; born 1949) [citation needed] is an American biographer, film producer, [citation needed] and friend of the late physicist Richard Feynman. [1] He recorded Feynman relating stories of his life. Leighton has released some of the recordings as The Feynman Tapes.
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In a commencement address given at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1974 (and reprinted in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! in 1985 as well as in The Pleasure of Finding Things Out in 1999), physicist Richard Feynman noted: [20] [21] We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book, released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. Some are lighthearted in tone, such as his fascination with safe-cracking, fondness for topless bars, and ventures into art and samba music.
Infinity is a 1996 American biographical film about the romantic life of physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman was played by Matthew Broderick , who also directed and co-produced the film. Broderick's mother, Patricia Broderick , wrote the screenplay, which was based on the books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other ...
Feynman continued to investigate the lack of communication between NASA's management and its engineers, and was struck by management's claim that the risk of catastrophic malfunction on the shuttle was 1 in 10 5, i.e. 1 in 100,000. Feynman immediately realized that this claim was risible on its face; as he described, this assessment of risk ...