First edition of the first volume of Feynman's highly entertaining memoirs.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $750.00
"There's no importance whatsoever. I'm just doing it for the fun of it."
Richard Feynman won the 1965 Nobel Prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics, but he earned the public's enduring affection and attention for his ability to get in and out of trouble, persuade lay people of the fundamental thrills of physics, spin an anecdote, and, defying all odds, be a serious scientist with charisma and humanity. (As W. Daniel Hillis later remembered, "the charming side of Richard helped people forgive him for his uncharming characteristics.") The brief first marriage that left him a widower has been dramatized more than once, with the aid of Matthew Broderick and Oscar Isaac, though the story's greatest effect comes through Feynman's own telling, without sentimentality and with great love. Based on transcribed audio interviews with Feynman, a nice copy of this science classic.
Read more: Hillis, "Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine," Physics Today.
First printing. (New York): (W.W. Norton & Company), (1985). 8.25'' x 5''. Original half red cloth with red boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original price-clipped dust jacket designed by Mike McIver. Edited by Edward Hutchings. 352 pages. Jacket spine a bit sunned. Small closed tear to front panel. Minor rubbing, edgewear. Book has slight lean, previous owner's name to front pastedown. Trace soil. Overall, bright and sound.
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