About this title: "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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2000-08
ISBN-13:9780738203492ISBN:0738203491
Description: Good. CONDITION IS GOOD+. Paperback. Very light wear on cover. Pages are generally very clean; however, there is a bit of underlining and a bit of handwriting on front end page. Binding: very tight. (tpb, non-f) read more
Description: Fair. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Basic Books Pub Date: 8/1/2000 Binding: Paperback Pages: 270. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Publishing; Helix Books, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780738203492ISBN:0738203491
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xvi, 270 pp., index; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Front cover slightly creased. "The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard Feynman--from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780140290349ISBN:0140290346
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 288p.; 20 cm. Originally published: Reading, Mass. : Perseus, 1999; London: Allen Lane, 2000. Includes index. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date Published: 2000-08
ISBN-13:9780738203492ISBN:0738203491
Description: Very Good+ 2000 Paperback. Different cover, same ISBN number. Cvr: corner creased, light wear at edges. Text: no highlight or underlining. No spine crease. PSCI-FEYQ7F1. read more
Description: Very Good. 0738201081 light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages very good condition//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
"Some of these "best short works" are quite interesting - for instance,"Cargo Cult Science" which discusses pseudoscience and such - and a few are mere random chatter with an occasional densely packed scientific paragraph attached. I think Feynman was probably a fascinating conversationalist and personality, but he doesn't make it so well on the printed page."
"Richard Feynman's The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a collection of interviews, lectures, and other short works written by the Nobel Prize winning physicist. The volume, wonderfully and unobtrusively edited by Jeffrey Robbins, covers a wide range of materials that gives readers a sense not only of the scientist, but of the man; in the included works the audience is treated to stories of Feynman's childhood, his experiences and hijinks while working at Los Alamos during WWII, formal lectures and speeches on various scientific subjects, and a healthy dash of humor and personality throughout.
I was intimidated to read the work, as I fully acknowledge my lack of competency in subjects like mathematics and physics, but my husband (a great admirer of Feynman) promised me I wouldn't get lost in the physics, so I gave it a try. And yes, I did get lost at time - although more so when Feynman discussed nanotechnology than anything else - but I found it very easy to pick up the narrative again if I didn't get myself worked up over understanding the specifics of the material. I wasn't reading The Pleasure of Finding Things Out to understand physics and nanotechnology; I was reading the work to understand a little more about one of my husband's heroes, and the volume accomplished just that. Even for someone with only a marginal interest in Feynman's actual work I found The Pleasure of Finding Things Out to be quite charming."
"I really enjoyed this book. Richard Feynman is such a character and an interesting person. I especially like the topic because my research is in nanoengineering and he is considered the father of nanotechnology. This is a collection of interviews and speeches so it's a little different from normal writing. I got such a kick out of chapter 3. It's fairly technical, but it's worth it once you get to the end. I plan on reading more of his books."
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