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Richard P. Feynman

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character Paperback – January 17, 2001

by Richard P. Feynman (Author), Ralph Leighton (Editor)

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The New York Times best-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 shuttle Challenger’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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“Feynman’s voice echoes raw and direct through these pages.”
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Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was a professor at Cornell University and CalTech and received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. In 1986 he served with distinction on the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster.

Ralph Leighton lives in northern California.

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (January 17, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393320928
ISBN-13: 978-0393320923
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches
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highly recommended

July 21, 2017

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These “further adventures” follow on from the book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”, or rather, the first half does. The second half is Feynman’s account of his role on the commission into the Challenger shuttle disaster. The book concludes with Feynman’s 1955 Nat Acad Sc address on the value of science.

Feynman was undoubtedly one of the great names of twentieth century science, and a remarkable individual. His "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” is an exceptional book: definitely 5++. The sequel, “What do you care what other people think?”, is perhaps not quite as good, being somewhat disjointed, but it is clearly still a solid 5 stars. A fascinating read.

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Excellent message presented in a friendly, readable way -- not a sermon.

March 26, 2017

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Richard Feynman was a truly excellent teacher. He was entertaining, creative, and knowledgeable. His well-known Nobel-prize winning work and iconoclastic behavior proves the point: follow your own thinking. The lesson of this book is the best possible lesson: do not let other people's expectations control what you do. Why give them power over you?

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Feynman Is an Approachable and Likeable Genius. A rare American bird.

August 21, 2016

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Richard Feynman was a genius. A rare bird who wasn't afraid of controversy or expounding his own strong opinions. Of course he had the "ace up his sleeve." He was the most innovative and brilliant scientist and physicist. I liked his other books as well, where he talks candidly about how his curiosity and native intelligence was active at a very early age. Be charmed and educated. Read the book.

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Fails to disappoint. A great sequel!

July 2, 2011

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Just absolutely wonderful - another collection of anecdotes from Feynman's life. The first part of the book almost seems indistinguishable from 'Surely You're...', using the same style of narration to present details of incidents. These 'incidents' are often unconnected and span from childhood recollections from Feynman's life and his original encounter with Arlene (his wife) to the time he spent during a trip to Brazil. Each story is amusing whilst managing to provide a deeper glimpse into the erratic, comical yet intelligent character of Feynman.

The second and greater part of this book deals with Feynman's presence on the committee investigating the 1986 crash of the Space Shuttle Challenger, capturing the incredible dissatisfaction felt by him as he is plunged into the administrative bureaucracy of Washington and NASA. The descriptions of the shuttle and its faulty components are illustrated clearly with the help of figures and photographs. These illustrations help the reader visualize the circumstances of the crash and where the the major fault within the shuttle actually lay. These are particularly helpful in eliminating any ambiguity in the description of technical rocket components (O-rings, etc). Despite the serious content, this part of the book retains the strong elements of humor found within rest of the book. It manages to paint a ludicrous picture of the way things tended to be handled in NASA (e.g. NASA informing an official that the probability of failure of an manned rocket is 1 in 100,000 which implied that "you could fly the shuttle every day for an average of 300 years between accidents- every day, one flight, for 300 years- which is obviously crazy!"). He also points towards the general errors made by large organizations such as NASA due to the divide between levels of management by narrating personal conversations with the management, engineers and workers. The perspicuous manner with which he describes his involvement in the investigation almost makes the reader feel as if he were right alongside Feynman while he was dealt the task of investigating the crash.

I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed "Surely You're Joking..." and is willing to put his mind to a bit more work to enjoy the second part of the book. Overall, it is a great book that any Feynman fan will be willing to appreciate!

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I love this book

February 21, 2018

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I love this book. Hilarious writing from one of my intellectual heroes and a rare, true genius. I first read this book in the early 90's, but bought it recently for my son as a Christmas gift since he liked "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" so much. Such a character and an inspiration to wring as much out of life as possible.

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Dr. Jack Littley

A truly Interesting Man.

March 23, 2018

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This compilation presents some funny, serious, sad and inspiring stories about Feynman, told by Feynman. From his romance with his high school sweetheart and first wife, to his trials and tribulations on the Challenger Commission, Feynman pushes against the system to get to the truth. I wish I had known him.

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Bits and pieces of genius

May 2, 2017

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A little unpolished, but a tremendous insight into one of the greatest minds to grace the field of physics. This is very easy and reading, don't be intimidated by the man. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman was more fun, but reading about the challenger investigation is extremely interesting. Read it in a single day, something I rarely do these days.

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This book continues the love story begun in "Surely You're..

May 10, 1998

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Joking, Mr. Feynman." The love story of his first marriage; the love story which relates to the rest of his life.
The stories he wrote in "Surely" were well polished, short and to the point, very much as he conveyed his pursuit of simpler presentations of the rudiments of physics.
This book, undoubtably disrupted by the accelerating decline of his health, is less polished, but is excellent when he describes his part in the determination of the Challenger disaster. [At one point he exclaims that the Challenger hearings are 'killing me'... speeding his death.] His further descriptions of his life with his first wife are also a wonderful and very human essay.
Feynman, with one exception, is the prime model of how a human being should approach life in its amazing totality. The ideas in this book are as much a part of that model as "Surely" and his "Introduction to Physics."
The title, by the way, was taken from words his first wife spoke about sixty years ago. Feynman had been placed in a situation where his presentation of himself - not his ideas - was of critical importance. His first wife, using those words, made it possible for him to ignore the presentation and pursue the ideas.
This book is about love of life, as are all his books.

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