"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Product Information

USPS – The 2005 Commemorative Stamp Program". December 2, 2004. Archived from the original on December 30, 2006. Feynman, inspired by a desire to quantize the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory of electrodynamics, laid the groundwork for the path integral formulation and Feynman diagrams. [44] Feynman, Richard P. (1998). The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing. ISBN 0-7382-0166-9. Feynman, Richard P. (1968) [1966]. "What is Science?" (PDF). The Physics Teacher. 7 (6): 313–320. Bibcode: 1969PhTea...7..313F. doi: 10.1119/1.2351388 . Retrieved June 10, 2023. Lecture presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, 1966 in New York City. Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.

Van Kortryk, T. (May 2017). "The doctoral students of Richard Feynman". Physics Today. arXiv: 1801.04574. doi: 10.1063/PT.5.9100. S2CID 119088526. Feynman was not the only frustrated theoretical physicist in the early post-war years. Quantum electrodynamics suffered from infinite integrals in perturbation theory. These were clear mathematical flaws in the theory, which Feynman and Wheeler had tried, unsuccessfully, to work around. [90] "Theoreticians", noted Murray Gell-Mann, "were in disgrace". [91] In June 1947, leading American physicists met at the Shelter Island Conference. For Feynman, it was his "first big conference with big men... I had never gone to one like this one in peacetime." [92] The problems plaguing quantum electrodynamics were discussed, but the theoreticians were completely overshadowed by the achievements of the experimentalists, who reported the discovery of the Lamb shift, the measurement of the magnetic moment of the electron, and Robert Marshak's two-meson hypothesis. [93] Milburn, Gerald J. (1998). The Feynman Processor: Quantum Entanglement and the Computing Revolution. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books. ISBN 0-7382-0173-1.

Gates, Bill. "The Best Teacher I Never Had". The Gates Notes. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016 . Retrieved January 29, 2016. Feynman, Richard P. (1986). Rogers Commission Report, Volume 2 Appendix F – Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle. NASA. Feynman had synesthesia, and said that mathematical symbols had different colors for him: "When I see equations, I see the letters in colors. I don't know why. I see vague pictures of Bessel functions with light-tan j's, slightly violet-bluish n's, and dark brown x's flying around." [135]

Friedman, Jerome (2004). "A Student's View of Fermi". In Cronin, James W. (ed.). Fermi Remembered. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-12111-6. OCLC 835230762.Feynman, Richard P. (2000). Laurie M. Brown (ed.). Selected Papers of Richard Feynman: With Commentary. 20th Century Physics. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-02-4131-5.

Many science buffs, I'll wager, are going to be unnerved by this book. After all, here is Richard Feynman - adjudged by most of his peers to be the world's best theoretical physicist - prancing around like a Rieffel, Eleanor G.; Polak, Wolfgang H. (March 4, 2011). Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction. MIT Press. p.44. ISBN 978-0-262-01506-6. of how to educate.'' Science turns out to be essentially ''a long history of learning how to not fool ourselves.''B I did not even have my degree when I started to work on stuff associated with the Manhattan Project." The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures, four public lectures of which the four chapters of the book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter are transcripts. (1979)She turned to me and said, "Oh! You're one of the Nobel-Prize-winners. In what field did you do your work?" Feynman, Richard P. (1950). "Mathematical formulation of the quantum theory of electromagnetic interaction". Physical Review. 80 (3): 440–457. Bibcode: 1950PhRv...80..440F. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.80.440. Archived from the original on September 14, 2020 . Retrieved May 20, 2019.