Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

Richard Phillips Feynman. W. W. Norton & Co, New York 1985, ISBN 0-393-01921-7.

Proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time -- New York Times. A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985 -- Amazon.com.

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