"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character

Anecdotal, unpretentious, and lively, Feynman's book is filled with stories about his outrageous adventures--from trading ideas with Albert Einstein to discussing betting odds with Nick the Greek. A New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks. Introduction by Albert R. Hibbs Vitals From Far Rockaway to MIT He Fixes Radios by Thinking! String Beans Who Stole the Door? Latin or Italian? Always Trying to Escape The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation The Princeton Years "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Meeeeeeeeeee! A Map of the Cat? Monster Minds Mixing Paints A Different Box of Tools Mindreaders The Amateur Scientist Feynman, the Bomb, and the Military Fizzled Fuses Testing Bloodhounds Los Alamos from Below Safecracker Meets Safecracker Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You! From Cornell to Caltech, With a Touch of Brazil The Dignified Professor Any Questions? I Want My Dollar! You Just Ask Them? Lucky Numbers O Americano, Outra Vez! Man of a Thousand Tongues Certainly, Mr. Big! An Offer You Must Refuse The World of One Physicist Would You Solve the Dirac Equation? The 7 Percent Solution Thirteen Times It Sounds Greek to Me! But Is It Art? Is Electricity Fire? Judging Books by Their Covers Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake Bringing Culture to the Physicists Found Out in Paris Altered States Cargo Cult Science None In this book Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told to and written down by Ralph Leighton. Feynman tells of his childhood and youth and goes into his adult life, both personally and professionally.