Folio Archives 403: Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! by Richard Feynman 2012
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! by Richard Feynman, Adventures of a Curious Character as told to Ralph Leighton 2012
Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was one of the most renown physicists of the 20th. century, but he also had the uncanny ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms that could be understood by most lay people. His eccentricities made him larger than life as he used practical jokes make his experiments come to life.
He disregarded authority and did things his way. He cracked safes, danced with waitresses, set his hands alight and was always trying to find out how things worked. His exploits were always entertaining, and many have been collected together in this book by Ralph Leighton.
He was a brilliant Nobel Prize winner for his work on quantum mechanics, but also a bawdy humourist.
This xv + 356 page book contains 40 short essays about Feynman’s exploits and ideas that vary in length from three to thirty pages, making it a book that is easy to read intermittently. It is introduced by Brian Cox. There is a photo portrait frontispiece, twelve pages of bound-in black & white plates at the centre of the book and eleven integrated drawings by Aude van Ryn. There is a comprehensive index. It has dark grey endpapers and is bound in grey buckram blocked in white, black and red with a design by Aude van Ryn. The black slipcase measures. 24.8x17cm.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
An illustrated catalogue of all my Folio Society books can be seen here.
Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was one of the most renown physicists of the 20th. century, but he also had the uncanny ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms that could be understood by most lay people. His eccentricities made him larger than life as he used practical jokes make his experiments come to life.
He disregarded authority and did things his way. He cracked safes, danced with waitresses, set his hands alight and was always trying to find out how things worked. His exploits were always entertaining, and many have been collected together in this book by Ralph Leighton.
He was a brilliant Nobel Prize winner for his work on quantum mechanics, but also a bawdy humourist.
This xv + 356 page book contains 40 short essays about Feynman’s exploits and ideas that vary in length from three to thirty pages, making it a book that is easy to read intermittently. It is introduced by Brian Cox. There is a photo portrait frontispiece, twelve pages of bound-in black & white plates at the centre of the book and eleven integrated drawings by Aude van Ryn. There is a comprehensive index. It has dark grey endpapers and is bound in grey buckram blocked in white, black and red with a design by Aude van Ryn. The black slipcase measures. 24.8x17cm.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
An illustrated catalogue of all my Folio Society books can be seen here.
2ian_curtin
I've picked up this Folio more than any of my others without actually reading it yet. Maybe I should try the dip approach.
I have both the Feynman books and Rovelli - I wonder would they ever consider doing the marvellous and science-adjacent works by Benjamin Labatut. Probably too recent to warrant FS attention.
I have both the Feynman books and Rovelli - I wonder would they ever consider doing the marvellous and science-adjacent works by Benjamin Labatut. Probably too recent to warrant FS attention.
3jhicks62
>2 ian_curtin: They did more than one Feynman book?
4A.Nobody
>3 jhicks62: Easy & Not-So-Easy Pieces was the other.
6jhicks62
>4 A.Nobody: Thank you! I hoped it might have been What Do You Care What Other People Think?.
