What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character - Hardcover

Feynman, Richard P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393026590 ISBN 13: 9780393026597

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988

Synopsis

Only once in a great while does a scientist/adventurer like Richard Feynman pass by; even rarer is there a record in his own words, such as the record Feynman leaves here, of the wonders that abounded his life.

About this title

Review:

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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0393026590
• ISBN 13: 9780393026597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258