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goofball
08-12-2005, 07:05 PM
Feynman's Rainbow by Dr. Leonard Mlodinow.

Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446692514/qid=1123887853/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5670671-8579213?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)

It makes the short list of books I picked up out of interest and didn't put down again until I had read the whole thing.
Dominic
08-12-2005, 07:41 PM
just about any book about or by Richard Feynman is worthy of a read. One of the few giants of the 20th Century I would've been thrilled to meet.
goofball
08-12-2005, 07:57 PM
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just about any book about or by Richard Feynman is worthy of a read. One of the few giants of the 20th Century I would've been thrilled to meet.

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Easily on the top 5 of people I'd want to meet from any time in history.
Duke
08-12-2005, 08:35 PM
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just about any book about or by Richard Feynman is worthy of a read. One of the few giants of the 20th Century I would've been thrilled to meet.

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Easily on the top 5 of people I'd want to meet from any time in history.

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This is semi-related to wacki's post about perfect employees being imperfect people.

Allegedly, Feynman used to prepare lectures at a titty bar. Maybe Cal-Tech should have fired one of the top minds of the last 500 years because of that.

~D
wacki
08-12-2005, 08:39 PM
Awesome post.
goofball
08-13-2005, 01:43 AM
Not allegedly, he wrote about it in another awesome book: Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman.
oreogod
08-13-2005, 04:39 AM
Here is a book I came across today that I havent been able to really put down, even now I am reading it and my girlfriend is dictating this to you.

Very well written.

Rubicon - Last years of the roman empire (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400078970/qid=1123922261/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-6060683-1251145?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)