The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P.Feynman

by Freeman J . Dyson (Foreword), RichardP.Feynman (Author), JeffreyRobbins (Foreword)

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  Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough says Richard P. Feynman in The Smartest Men in the World , one of the many pieces in this collection of Feynman's best short works. Here we see Feynman as he was - a brilliant physicist who consistently rejected authority, wholeheartedly embraced the value of doubt, and whose infectious sense of curiosity infused everything he did. This wide-ranging collection includes uproarious tales of Feynman's early student experiments (with himself, his socks, his typewriter, his fellow students); his youthful experiences on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II; his famous report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster; two seminal lectures on the future of computers and nanotechnology; stories of safecracking and plaguing US censors with talcum powder; and tales of the physicist as a child - how his father delighted in showing him the world, and how he, the young boy, took great pleasure in finding things out .