"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" (Adventures of a Curious Character)

About Author:

Richard Feynman, a physicist who won a Nobel Prize for the development
of quantum electrodynamics (1965). He worked in Manhattan Project,
worked as a college professor and did lot of research. he was an
adventurer, a drummer, a joker, and a genius. His tales are timeless
and fantastic, and he tells them so wonderfully.

About the Book:

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" (Adventures of a Curious
Character), the book speaks about the physicist Richard P. Feynman and
relates a range of stories from his childhood to throughout his life.
Feynman was known as something of a character that moved from one
adventure to another. This autobiographical work is one of the most
delightful discussions of a brilliant nuclear physicist. The book
covers some of the most serious subjects of the 20th century, with
humor that will amaze you.

The stories that will probably give interest to those who are more
directly related to physics, One of Feynman's interesting personality
is that he had an attractive to view of what it meant to be a real
man. Many of his adventures come as he tries to apply his specific
brand of views and ideas, even when he's not particularly suited for
it. The stories go roughly chronologically in order,

It contains 5 chapeters; the book speaks about Feynman's life range
from his earliest days fixing radios to his career as a professor.
Some stories just defy categorization but give a certain texture to
Feynman's life. The stories were very well written and somewhat
amusing. It is starting as a boy in his hometown of Far Rockaway,
Queens, New York. He grew up faking Italian swearing so well that he
even fooled some people who knew Italian (a skill that would later
serve him well in speaking Chinese ... or at least convincing people
he could).

This book is extraordinarily funny, Quite simply and not in a literary
way. Whether the stories he tells are all true or not, you have to
admire Prof. Feynman's complete creativity and his unmatched talent as
a narrator

and a humorist.

Reviewed by: Jaishankar Jayakumar