What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of A Curious Character
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman
Richard Feynman – Nobel Laureate, teacher and iconic intellect – possessed an unquenchable thirst for an adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life.
In this collection of short pieces Feynman describes everything from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think. He takes us behind the scenes of the space shuttle Challenger investigation, where he dramatically revealed the cause of the disaster with a simple experiment. And he tells us of how he met his beloved first wife Arlene, and their brief time together before her death. Sometimes intensely moving, sometimes funny, these writings are infused with Feynman’s curiosity and passion for life.
RM55.00
Out of stock
Description
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman
Richard Feynman – Nobel Laureate, teacher and iconic intellect – possessed an unquenchable thirst for an adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life.
In this collection of short pieces Feynman describes everything from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think. He takes us behind the scenes of the space shuttle Challenger investigation, where he dramatically revealed the cause of the disaster with a simple experiment. And he tells us of how he met his beloved first wife Arlene, and their brief time together before her death. Sometimes intensely moving, sometimes funny, these writings are infused with Feynman’s curiosity and passion for life.
Publisher: Penguin
Paperback
2008
ISBN: 9780141030883
The Love Department
The Undesirables: Inside Nauru
Andre Kertesz: Postcards from Paris
Dancing The Malaysian
Anak Malaysia: Pengembaraan Seorang Jurugambar
Lee Joo For Retrospective
Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005 - 2016
Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
An Uncommon Hero: M.K. Rajakumar In Politics & Medicine
The Translator Gives It Visible Form: Translating Malay and Indonesian Literature
The Chulia in Penang: Patronage and Place-Making around the Kapitan Kling Mosque, 1786–1957
Penang: The Fourth Presidency of India 1805–1830, Vol. 2: Fire, Spice and Edifice
Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing
Portraits of Penang: Little India
Vanishing Beauty: Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection
XS Green: Big Ideas, Small Buildings
Watch Us Dance
Child of All Nations
Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
This Earth of Mankind
Footsteps
