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Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! : adventures of a curious character

by Richard P. Feynman

Compiled from recorded conversations, this autobiographical volume presents a series of personal anecdotes characterised by humour and curiosity, detailing the unconventional adventures of a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist.

Accession 30566 ISBN 0393019217 Publisher W. W. Norton & Co.
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