Surely you're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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Milburn, Gerald J. (1998). The Feynman Processor: Quantum Entanglement and the Computing Revolution. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books. ISBN 0-7382-0173-1. Cohen, M.; Feynman, Richard P. (1957). "Theory of Inelastic Scattering of Cold Neutrons from Liquid Helium". Physical Review. 107 (1): 13–24. Bibcode: 1957PhRv..107...13C. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.107.13. Archived from the original on September 14, 2020 . Retrieved May 20, 2019.

Leighton, Ralph (2000). Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's last journey. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-32069-3. Feynman applied to Columbia University but was not accepted because of their quota for the number of Jews admitted. [3] Instead, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. [30] Although he originally majored in mathematics, he later switched to electrical engineering, as he considered mathematics to be too abstract. Noticing that he "had gone too far", he then switched to physics, which he claimed was "somewhere in between". [31] As an undergraduate, he published two papers in the Physical Review. [28] One of these, which was co-written with Manuel Vallarta, was entitled "The Scattering of Cosmic Rays by the Stars of a Galaxy". [32] Schweber, Silvan S. (1994). QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03327-7. OCLC 918243948. Feynman, Richard P. (1951). "An Operator Calculus Having Applications in Quantum Electrodynamics". Physical Review. 84 (1): 108–128. Bibcode: 1951PhRv...84..108F. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.84.108. Archived from the original on September 15, 2020 . Retrieved May 20, 2019.Many of Feynman's lectures and miscellaneous talks were turned into other books, including The Character of Physical Law, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Statistical Mechanics, Lectures on Gravitation, and the Feynman Lectures on Computation. [160]

If we put in the work to really understand why something is the way it is, not just the what of it then we are in a much better position. 'I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way [...] their knowledge is so fragile! [...] This kind of fragility is fairly common, even with more learned people.' Don't Be Afraid to Build and Get Rough With the Things You Use - It's Better to Understand Your Tools LeVine, Harry (2009). The Great Explainer: The Story of Richard Feynman. Greensboro, North Carolina: Morgan Reynolds. ISBN 978-1-59935-113-1. for high school readers Oral history interview transcript with Richard Feynman on 4 February 1973, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives – Session V Feynman, Richard P. (2000). Hey, Tony; Allen, Robin W. (eds.). Feynman Lectures on Computation. Perseus Books Group. ISBN 0-7382-0296-7. Computer science also differs from physics in that it is not actually a science. It does not study natural objects. Neither is it, as you might think, mathematics; although it does use mathematical reasoning pretty extensively. Rather, computer science is like engineering – it is all about getting something to do something, rather than just dealing with abstractions . Murray Gell-Mann was upset by Feynman's account in the book of the weak interaction work, and threatened to sue, resulting in a correction being inserted in later editions. [4]

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