"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

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Mehra, Jagdish (1994). The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-853948-7. OCLC 28507544. In 1964, he served on the California State Curriculum Commission, which was responsible for approving textbooks to be used by schools in California. He was not impressed with what he found. [164] Many of the mathematics texts covered subjects of use only to pure mathematicians as part of the " New Math". Elementary students were taught about sets, but:

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Feynman, Richard P. (1998). The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing. ISBN 0-7382-0166-9. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology (creation of devices at the molecular scale). He held the Richard Chace Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at Caltech. Nielsen, Michael A.; Chuang, Isaac L. (2010). Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (10th anniversaryed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.7. ISBN 978-1-107-00217-3. OCLC 844974180. Colourful language: U of T psychologists discover enhanced language learning in synesthetes". University of Toronto News . Retrieved March 20, 2023.Deutsch, David (June 1, 1992). "Quantum computation". Physics World. 5 (6): 57–61. doi: 10.1088/2058-7058/5/6/38. ISSN 0953-8585. After the war, Feynman takes a job as a professor at Cornell. He works and teaches there for several years before moving to CalTech. He decides CalTech is everything he ever wanted in a workplace and settles down there permanently. He establishes a reputation as a brilliant and accomplished physicist, and achieves worldwide recognition—including a Nobel prize in 1965. (However, the book tells us very little about the actual physics he does in his career).

I’ll have both, thank you,” I say, still looking for where I’m going to sit, when suddenly I hear “Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh. Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman.” Feynman, Richard P. (1942). Laurie M. Brown (ed.). The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics. PhD Dissertation, Princeton University. World Scientific (with title "Feynman's Thesis: a New Approach to Quantum Theory") (published 2005). ISBN 978-981-256-380-4. You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing."

You’re in!

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Brian, Denis (2001). The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus. ISBN 978-0-7382-0447-5. OCLC 751292707. His other books include The Feynman Lectures on Physics and What Do You Care What Other People Think? Feynman is speaking to us from late in his life, when he has reached the very top of his profession. While he is clearly aware of his own intelligence, his tone is very accessible and encouraging. (it is no wonder he places such a high value on teaching—which is somewhat unusual for a professor of his clout). He encourages his readers to take pleasure in exploring natural and cultural phenomena for themselves. Hu, Jane C. (September 19, 2018). "Replacing names in science after #MeToo". Quartzy . Retrieved June 10, 2023. Feynman, Richard P. (1966). "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics". Science (published August 12, 1966). 153 (3737): 699–708. Bibcode: 1966Sci...153..699F. doi: 10.1126/science.153.3737.699. PMID 17791121.

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Audiobook Summary

Feynman applied to Columbia University but was not accepted because of their quota for the number of Jews admitted. [3] Instead, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. [30] Although he originally majored in mathematics, he later switched to electrical engineering, as he considered mathematics to be too abstract. Noticing that he "had gone too far", he then switched to physics, which he claimed was "somewhere in between". [31] As an undergraduate, he published two papers in the Physical Review. [28] One of these, which was co-written with Manuel Vallarta, was entitled "The Scattering of Cosmic Rays by the Stars of a Galaxy". [32] The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures, four public lectures of which the four chapters of the book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter are transcripts. (1979) The title of this collection comes from a tale that took place early in Feynman's career where he was invited for an afternoon tea with the dean of his university. The dean's wife i