A very good book.

goofball · #1 08-12-2005, 07:05 PM

Feynman's Rainbow by Dr. Leonard Mlodinow.

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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 · #2 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 · #3 08-12-2005, 07:57 PM

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

Duke · #4 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 · #5 08-12-2005, 08:39 PM

Awesome post.

goofball · #6 08-13-2005, 01:43 AM

Not allegedly, he wrote about it in another awesome book: Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman.

oreogod · #7 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