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The New York Timesbest-selling sequel to"Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!"


One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"is Feynman’s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many tales—some funny, others intensely moving—we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttleChallenger’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.
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A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to determine the cause of the Challenger space shuttle explosion; and the scientific sleuthing behind his famously elegant O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other memoirs, but in some ways more profound.

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Roughly half of these 21 short, colloquial essays deal with Feynman's firsthand investigaton of the Challenger space-shuttle disaster. He casts himself in the role of intrepid detective, and the first-person singular pronoun keeps intruding on the worthwhile things he has to say about flight safety and lack of communication within NASA. An appendix offers his chilling technical observations on the shuttle's reliability or lack of it. The remaining pieces are mostly a blur of international conferences, purveying slight anecdotes. But two essays touch genuine depths of feeling: his tribute to his father, who taught him to cultivate a sense of wonder, and his account of his love affair with his first wife (who died). In this posthumous miscellany, theoretical physicist Feynman displays only sporadically the adventurousness that captivated readers of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Feb. 14 2011
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    Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 and grew up in Far Rockaway, New York. At the age of seventeen he entered MIT and in 1939 went to Princeton, then to Los Alamos, where he joined in the effort to build the atomic bomb. Following World War II he joined the physics faculty at Cornell, then went on to Caltech in 1951, where he taught until his death in 1988. He shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965, and served with distinction on the Shuttle Commission in 1986. A commemorative stamp in his name was issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2005.

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    Ralph Leighton (born 13 November 1949) is a biographer, film producer, and friend of the late physicist Richard Feynman. He recorded Feynman relating stories of his life. Leighton has released some of the recordings as The Feynman Tapes. These interviews became the basis for the books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, which were later combined into the hardcover anniversary edition Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character. Leighton is an amateur drummer and founder of the group Friends of Tuva. In 1990 he wrote Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman's Last Journey.

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  • William
    5.0 out of 5 stars Feynman is genius
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    It doesn't seem to matter how many times I've watched him tell these stories on Youtube, I enjoyed it even more in the book.
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  • Terry Trowbridge
    4.0 out of 5 stars What's left to be said?
    Reviewed in Canada on January 20, 2021
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    Everyone who likes Feynman will already know how good this book is. My only worthwhile comment is that it is fascinating to find he didn't understand Descartes at all. I thought Feynman would appreciate the idea of methodical skepticism, but it turns out he has no method for skepticism. Talk about a paradox in his character.
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    Not only was he very intelligent and a terror, he remains through his writing a great sense of humour, witty, entertaining, and informative, on even the most complex.
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    I don't know whether this star rating applies to the contents or to the condition of the book. Its condition was adequate; its contents are thoroughly engaging. What an utter singularity was Feynman.
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  • Robert S. Moore
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Feynman
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    I purchased this as an audio book. It is fun to listen to. Feynman is a funny and clever guy.
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  • Patrice Levesque
    3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing after "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
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    After reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman", I could not wait for this follow-up. Unfortunately, this book scrapes the barrel of Feynman-related adventures and it shows - most stories look like they were rejected for the first book. Though the Challenger disaster investigation events as experienced by Feynman could be a great idea on paper, the "plot" feels stretched a lot, with way too much pointless detail. Unfortunately, this "detective story" fills half of the book. Though Feynman remains a bright and smart man, the book just doesn't appear to reflect that as it did in "Surely"; we sure miss the wits a lot.
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  • EnglishDave99
    4.0 out of 5 stars great read about Feynman's life and Challenger
    Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2015
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    A great person, with much to learn from. I wish i could have met him. he was determined to get to the root cause of the Challenger failure, just goes to show how gov's and associated depts cover things up.
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  • acheteur
    5.0 out of 5 stars Personnalité intéressante et amusante
    Reviewed in France on November 29, 2022
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    Un bon livre pour mieux comprendre l'auteur et sa vision du monde moderne.
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  • Agnes.B
    5.0 out of 5 stars Der wunderbare Feynman
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    Phantastisch, humorvoll und sachlich geschrieben… so wie das nur Meister Feynman konnte.
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    Reviewed in Italy on February 21, 2018
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    l'articolo mi è piaciuto molto: il rapporto qualità/prezzo è soddisfacente, la fattura del prodotto è adeguata alle aspettative e quanto indicato nell'offerta è corrispondente alle caratteristiche dell'articolo. I tempi di consegna sono stati rispettati e 鶹 si dimostra ancora una volta un'organizzazione perfetta.
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  • rosesinbud
    5.0 out of 5 stars A genius in physics with a great sense of humor.
    Reviewed in Japan on December 5, 2017
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    It seems that you hear Feynman's name here and there all the time although the man has been dead now for awhile. Since my focus in life wasn't physics, I missed out on knowing anything about this brilliant man until I finally decided to read his books and find out for myself who he was and what he discovered. I didn't expect such a humorous guy to pop out of the pages of this book, but he did pop out and not only presented himself to me, but entertained me with his tales enough that I started to feel like I really missed out when I avoided learning physics. Just reading his narrative made me want to know more and as Feynman said you are never finished with learning things. While I suspect Quantum Mechanics is beyond my capabilities, this book gave me a great appreciation for the field and the man. If you read this book, you'll discover a fine sense of humor that existed along with brilliant insights into the universe in this one man. I recommend it.
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  • anderson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muito interessante!
    Reviewed in Brazil on September 18, 2021
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    A book that explains some points of Richards’ life, such as, your wife e her illness. I never understood how he worked in Los Alamos in this situation and this book shows this.
    Of middle the book ahead there is the Richards’ point of view about the Challenge investigation. Very interesting!
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