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5 comments about Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!.

1. Feynman's thinking style is not "linear." This is the reason he was able to break out of the box, and make the profound breakthroughs that were his mark. One anecdote after another illustrates this in a most enjoyable and enlightening way.

   For example, as a lad he wanted to learn real mathematics. The librarian wouldn't allow him to borrow advanced math books, so he said they were for someone else, someone older. Reading book after book, he taught himself mathematics. He ended up learning some advanced math uniquely his way. Years later, while still in graduate school, he was recruited to work on the Manhattan project (which developed the atom bomb). When other mathematicians who used conventional math treatments were stumped, Feynman was able to make breakthrough using a math style unique to him-non-linear.

   And, by the way, quantum mechanics is not linear, either. This was one of the most enjoyable reads ever.




2. I read Surely Your Joking for the 1st time in late 1987. My daughter got if for me at my request for my birthday. Actually I asked her for something by Phillip Morrison but while she was shopping in the San Jose State bookstore she forgot what physicist I was interested and got Feynman's book instead.

   I'm glad she made that innocent mistake. Feynman knocked me out. Raymond Todd's reading on the 10 CD audio set is outstanding. I'm buying my daughter a set for herself.




3. this is one of the best books ever. being in Geometry and using the pythagorean theorem, deals A LOT with numbers being squared. with the neat little trick i learned in this book, i hardly ever use my calculator if the number is around 50 or any multiple of 50. it has saved a lot of my time and i am not kidding, Mr. Feynman is a genius. WOW!!! =)



4. Surely, Your Joking Mr. Feynman is a comical and interesting book about Mr. Feynman's life and his passion Physics. In this book he talks very in-depthly about his life everything from his very early childhood years to his adult life as a professor. The book is very well written with just enough detail to make you interested in all of his adventures, but not too much that you would loose interest. This book does not use complex equations or terms to explain physics terms, but creatively words each concept so that any level of reader and physics explorer could understand what he was doing. Giving this book great word choice and a nice flow that keeps you wanting to read along. Through all of this, the book is comically written and tells about Mr. Feynman's crazy experiments and pranks he played on people. Everything from hiding a door from a member of his fraternity to casually moving around the information for the atomic bomb from safe to safe. Mr. Feynman thrives on crazy adventures through the physics world and does many crazy things along the way to satisfy his hunger for comedy. This book is recommended for anyone who enjoys a good educational book, but also has a good sense of humor and enjoys practical jokes themselves.



5. If you have ever wondered how a dishonest, drunken, whoremongering, bar-room-brawling junkie can also be a Nobel-prize-winning physicist then this book will provide the answer.
   
   At least Feynman was not boring. Considering how many physicists nowadays are, this is no small thing.

2 comments about A Professor's Unforgettables.

1. Dr. Bond of Rebeccasreads highly recommends A PROFESSOR'S UNFORGETTABLES as a worthy offering from this Grandma Moses of Literature.
   
   Beginning her career as a published writer late in life (she is now 87), she has taken her long service as a teacher of humanities & transformed it into a delightful book of short stories that no one who has ever loved a teacher should miss. The tales are moving, insightful into human nature, & full of the wisdom that only age combined with sensibility can bring.
   
   A PROFESSOR'S UNFORGETTABLES, while in need of a copy editor, is highly recommended for all who like a "good read" & the many people who, as children, dearly loved their teachers.
   
   Do check out this author's other books: A NUDE SINGULARITY: Lily Peter of Arkansas, a biography & BILLY FREEMAN, Florida Keys Sheriff.



2. "A Professor's Unforgettables: 5 out Of 10,000 Students in 25 Years" is an enticing collection of sketches by University of Arkansas Professor AnnieLaura Jagger of her humanities students -- the more memorable ones, of course. With deadpan humour, straight ahead jabs to the reader, and intimate little double -takes, "A Professor's Unforgettables" reads as smooth as corn silk. The humourous illustrations by Joe Gray adjust the right touch. One wonders if he was perhaps another unforgettable student to be sketched later on. The five students selected are not quite the academic angels one might expect of a professor's memoirs. They are in fact far more colorfully human than obviously brilliant. At least one of them qualifies as a celebrity; Barbara, the future wife of Norman Mailer. Perhaps one thing each student has done to become memorable is to challenge her, both as a teacher and as a full human being. She rises to each challenge in unusual and unforgettable ways. From the former military man who resented being taught by a woman to the charming French-Canadian student who relies on Professor Jaggers to save his life and preserve his romantic outlook (the last, alas, doomed to disappointment), these are fully dimensional sketches of students who left an impression on this unusual humanities professor. The writer never takes herself too seriously, though she clearly retains her own set of values and frame of reference. "A Professor's Unforgettables" is a most entertaining read, and one that may restore some prestige to the concept of higher education and the liberal arts.

1 comments about Power Steering: My Years As a Volunteer Senior Peer Counselor.

1. Power Steering: My Years As A Senior Peer Counselor by R. J. Howard is the highly recommended and fictionalized memoir of a volunteer peer counselor, styled specifically to protect the privacy of people involved. Based on the author's own story of her experiences as a volunteer and advocate for America's senior citizens, Power Steering is written with emotion, heart, depth, and sharp awareness of the shortcomings of modern-day nursing and care facilities.

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