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

A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century"s greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize­-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice 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. Black-and-white photographs throughout