Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! : adventures of a curious character / Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings.

Includes index.

From Far Rockaway to MIT. He fixes radios by thinking! ; String beans ; Who stole the door? ; Latin or Italian? ; Always trying to escape ; The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation -- The Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" ; Meeeeeeeeeee! ; A map of the cat? ; Monster minds ; Mixing paints ; A different box of tools ; Mindreaders ; The amateur scientist -- Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses ; Testing bloodhounds ; Los Alamos from below ; Safecracker meets safecracker ; Uncle Sam doesn't need you! -- From Cornell to Caltech, with a touch of Brazil. The dignified professor ; Any questions? ; I want my dollar! ; You just ask them? ; Lucky numbers ; O Americano, outra vez! ; Man of a thousand tongues ; Certainly, Mr. Big! ; An offer you must refuse -- The world of one physicist. Would you solve the Dirac equation? ; The 7 percent solution ; Thirteen times ; It sounds Greek to me! ; But is it art? ; Is electricity fire? ; Judging books by their covers ; Alfred Nobel's other mistake ; Bringing culture to the physicists ; Found out in Paris ; Altered states ; Cargo cult science.

In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums--and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Photos.