"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?" by Richard P Feynman
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. What Do You Care What Other People Think? is Feynman s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. 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 it out, misshapen.
"Feynman’s voice echoes raw and direct through these pages" -- James Gleick - New York Times Book Review
"One final, welcome jolt from Mr. Feynman…There are a great many things for all of us in this book." -- Peter Gorner - Chicago Tribune
"There is nothing obtuse or difficult about [this] book. Indeed, Feynman’s rendering of such a potentially complex subject as the Challenger disaster is straightforward, lucid, and accessible." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"One of the greatest minds of the twentieth century…[He] was also stubborn, irreverent, playful, intensely curious and highly original in practically everything he did." -- New York Review of Books
"A gentler book [than “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”], and for those interested in the man, a more substantial one." -- Bettyann Kevles - Los Angeles Times
"One final, welcome jolt from Mr. Feynman…There are a great many things for all of us in this book." -- Peter Gorner - Chicago Tribune
"There is nothing obtuse or difficult about [this] book. Indeed, Feynman’s rendering of such a potentially complex subject as the Challenger disaster is straightforward, lucid, and accessible." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"One of the greatest minds of the twentieth century…[He] was also stubborn, irreverent, playful, intensely curious and highly original in practically everything he did." -- New York Review of Books
"A gentler book [than “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”], and for those interested in the man, a more substantial one." -- Bettyann Kevles - Los Angeles Times
Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was a professor at Cornell University and CalTech and received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. In 1986 he served with distinction on the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Ralph Leighton lives in northern California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393355642 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393355640 |
| Title | "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" |
| Author | Richard P Feynman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2018-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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