I have collected several books about Richard Feynman, one of the best physicist America ever had! They are "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!", "What Do You Care About the Other People Think?", "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.", and "Feyman Lecture in Physics" and some other additional lecture, including the lost one! I love reading them again and again.... Feyman's life is so hilarious! I also shed some tear when I read how much he loves his first wife Arline....
What do you all think then? Which books are the best about Feynman?
2006-08-28 02:23:57 · 4 answers · asked by Professor Franklin 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I also have scan some books into my CPU and I'm willing to share it to anyone who wants to read his lifestory and lectures! No payback please, just pay it forward. Share it to anyone who wants to read and learn about Feynman!
2006-08-28 02:24:33 · update #1
"Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" is best book about Feynman, followed by "What Do You Care About the Other People Think?" They give a sense of his personality, and snapshots of his varied work in physics and academic worlds. Having read those, it would be unnecessary to read "Genius."
"The Feynman Lectures" constitute an excellent physics text by him, and therefore is not about Feynman at all.
2006-08-28 02:51:42 · answer #1 · answered by Tekguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While I have not read all of those, books, I highly recommend the collection of his speeches: "Classic Feynman." My copy came with a CD of him relating some of the anecdotes therein, so after I listened to that, I could imagine how he'd sound saying every story I read. I also think the book did an excellent job of portraying what his personality was like, as well as the more mechanical details of the things he did.
2006-08-28 09:31:40 · answer #2 · answered by Mehoo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Tuva or Bust!' by Mr.Feynman's friend & fellow traveller is an excellent insight into what this great man was really like outside of the lecture hall, and I heartily recommend it, it'll make you want to learn to play the bongoes or throat-sing, and may make you take up triangular stamp collecting!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393320693/002-0829365-9992029?v=glance&n=283155
2006-08-28 11:12:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent topic.
I have read only one book "Genius". I had heard about him but after reading this book I have become a big fan of his.
He says "If we cannot explain something in simple terms, that means we haven't fully understood it yet".......How true, How true.
2006-08-28 10:47:41 · answer #4 · answered by Infinity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋