“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
$13.89 $15.95
Price: $15.95 - $13.89
(as of Jan 16, 2025 09:48:00 UTC – Details)
The New York Times best-selling sequel to “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
Like the “funny, brilliant, bawdy” (The New Yorker) “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” this book’s many stories―some funny, others intensely moving―display Richard P. Feynman’s unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life.
Here 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 on the atomic bomb at nearby Los Alamos. We listen to the fascinating narrative of the investigation into the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion in 1986 and relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause through an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen. In “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century lets us see the man behind the genius.
ASIN : 0393355640
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (February 6, 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780393355642
ISBN-13 : 978-0393355642
Item Weight : 8 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book easy to read and enjoyable. They appreciate the insightful and informative content, as well as the author’s personality and genius. The humor is described as funny and laugh-out-loud funny. Readers find the emotional content touching and poignant, with a warm human sense. The autobiography is described as interesting and inspiring, told in first-person.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
There are no reviews yet.