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Apr 25, 2006 · Beginning with a short note home in his first days as a graduate student, and ending with a letter to a stranger seeking his advice decades later, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track covers a dazzling array of topics and themes, scientific developments and personal histories. With missives to and from scientific luminaries, as ...
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- Richard Phillips Feynman, Michelle Feynman
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Feb 1, 2006 · She edited a good number of those letters and published them in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman. The letters reveal a facet of Feynman’s personality that is less well known than those revealed in his other works.
May 8, 2005 · May 8, 2005. PERFECTLY REASONABLE DEVIATIONS FROM THE BEATEN TRACK The Letters of Richard P. Feynman. Edited by Michelle Feynman. Foreword by Timothy Ferris. Illustrated. 486 pp. Basic Books. $26 ...
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Apr 5, 2004 · In this career-spanning collection of letters, many published here for the first time, we are able to see this side of Feynman like never before. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track covers a dazzling array of topics and themes, scientific developments and personal histories.
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486 pp. ISBN. 978-0738206363. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman is a collection of Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman's letters. [1] [2] [3] The book was edited by his daughter, Michelle Feynman, and includes a foreword by Timothy Ferris. The book is also titled Don't You Have Time to Think ...
- Richard Phillips Feynman, Michelle Feynman
- 486 pp.
- 2005
- 5 April 2005
Aug 1, 2008 · Feynman once mused that "people are entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before." As edited and annotated by his daughter, Michelle, these letters not only allow us to better grasp the how and why of Feynman's enduring appeal, but also to see the virtues of an inquiring eye in ...
<p>One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. It was his outsized love for life, however, that earned him the status of an American cultural icon ...
