Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Author: Richard P. Feynman
A series of anecdotes, such as are included in Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman, shouldn’t by rights add up to an autobiography, but that’s just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in this engagingly eccentric book. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled “Judging Books by Their C….Read More
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