Feynman, Richard Phillips. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : : adventures of a curious character / [electronic resource] / Richard P. Feynman ; as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings.. — Bantam trade ed.. — New York : : Bantam Books,, 1989, c1985.. — 322 p. ; 21 cm.
"A Bantam trade paperback." "Bantam new age books"--P. preceding t.p. Reprint. Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton, c1985. "The New York Times bestseller"--Cover. "The outrageous exploits of the world's most outspoken Nobel Prize-winning scientist"--Cover. Includes index.
Introduction / Albert R. Hibbs -- Vitals -- Part 1 : 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 -- Part 2 : the Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" -- Meeeeeeeee! -- A map of the cat? -- Monster minds -- Mixing paints -- A different box of tools -- Mindreaders -- The amateur scientist.Part 3 : Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses -- Testing bloodhounds -- Los Alamos from below -- Safecracker meets safecracker -- Uncle Sam doesn't need you! -- Part 4 : 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.Part 5 : 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.