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Loading... What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character (original 1988; edition 2001)by Richard Phillips Feynman
Work InformationWhat Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (1988)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Amusing anecdotes about Feynman, told by Feynman. I found myself, though, questioning the portrayal as much as I would the autobiography of an internet influencer. ( ) All the Feynman adventures offer a fascinating and unique perspective into the world of a theoretical physicist in end of 20th century. The filter that Feynman brings to this in addition, is that of a bit of a trouble making, womanizing, principled empiricist. I enjoy the fiction, the world he creates is fascinating and comes to life despite some mismatch of values and the pretty clear exaggeration of some of his stories. His accout of the investigation in the Challenger disaster is sound and important reading for any future engineer. Politics does not play well with risky engineering. I have a theory that this is not a great first choice to learn about Feynman. The anecdotes are good, the story about Arlene and the account of the Challenger investigation the best, but it's pretty pieced together. I think if I'd started with one of the other Feynman books first (Surely You're Joking, for example) that I might've liked this one better. no reviews | add a review
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One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. Here, he offers the last installment of his literary legacy. No library descriptions found. |
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