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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman

A candid collection of Richard Feynman's personal letters spanning five decades, revealing his unyielding scientific integrity, personal warmth, and boundless curiosity across the Manhattan Project, quantum physics, and public life.

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20 parts, about 34 minutes to read.

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Richard P. Feynman
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20 parts
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about 34 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. Foreword by Timothy Ferris1 min
  2. Introduction by Michelle Feynman1 min
  3. 1939 to 1942: Princeton letters1 min
  4. 1943 to 1945: Los Alamos letters4 min
  5. 1946 to 1959: Letters after the war3 min
  6. 1960 to 1970: The National Academy of Sciences1 min
  7. 1960 to 1965: Caltech years and letters from strangers3 min
  8. 1965: The Nobel Prize2 min
  9. 1966 to 1969: After the Nobel Prize3 min
  10. 1970 to 1975: Education, women and computers2 min
  11. 1976 to 1981: Illness and later letters2 min
  12. 1982 to 1984: Letters after the documentary2 min
  13. 1985 to 1987: Challenger and later letters2 min
  14. Appendix I: Interview for Viewpoint, about 19591 min
  15. Appendix II: Earl Ubell on gravity, 19611 min
  16. Appendix III: The Future of Physics1 min
  17. Appendix IV: California Tech Extra on the Nobel Prize, 19651 min
  18. Appendix V: Textbooks for the new mathematics, 19651 min
  19. Appendix VI: Lee Edson on the quark hunt, 19671 min
  20. Acknowledgments1 min

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    Feynman wants mathematics teaching to allow different methods; Epstein adds mixed practice that makes learners identify a problem before choosing a strategy, while warning that struggling during practice need not mean learning less.

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