"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

The New York Times best-selling sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman’s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many tales―some funny, others intensely moving―we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.

• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)
• Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
• The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Princeton Science Library)
• Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition
• The Character of Physical Law (The MIT Press)
• Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character