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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
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May 05, 2013
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balsam on
The Feynman File (2005)
Most biographies of Feynman are really hagiographies of Feynman, who was no doubt a great showman. Here's a collection of his letters, which, despite revealing some personal flaws, show that he is wiser and more vulnerable than we imagine. Really underrated in my opinion.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465023711/
(The letters to family and Wolfram is also there.)
Another good one, in my opinion, is a rather raw portrait made from the vantage point of a student towards the end of Feynman's life. It's the unvarnished details that reveal the ordinariness and greatness of that physicist dude.
http://www.amazon.com/Feynmans-Rainbow-Search-Physics-Vintag...
I think Feynman really believed that anybody could become as (wise? accomplished? happy?) as he, and I think most books don't do justice to that dream of his, by making him out to be some kind of trickster god.
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Mar 17, 2010
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xsmasher on
Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"
There's a book of Feynman's letters out now, and I felt like there was a progression from the early letters -- where a certain amount of sexism was present -- to later ones where he seemed convinced that women were the peers of men in academia.