RICHARD FEYNMAN:EK VYAKTIMATVA (1 )

Surely Youre Joking Mr. Feynman! is a witty and funny self-portrait of the famous theoretical physicist Richard Feynman. The book is a transcription of several taped conversations that the physicist had with a friend. Ralph Leighton. The text has been changed very mildly when compared to the spoken words in the tapes and so it has a fast and crisp style. Richard Feynman was a multifaceted personality who did not limit his interest to just physics. He answered in the affirmative and then went on to describe why he found the phenomenon interesting. Feynman said that whenever he fell asleep or was just waking up he would have imaginary conversations with his foreign colleagues. In these fictional conversations inside his head he was able to perfectly mimic each persons accent but he could not do this when he was speaking while awake. He was curious about how one part of his brain had succeeded in capturing these accents but the part that was responsible for actual speech could not do so. There are many such hilarious episodes from his life but through it all Feynmans true personality comes through as an iconoclast and skeptic who never accepted anything with even proven theories without testing them once himself. He had a passion for teaching and could simplify the explanations of the most difficult concepts to make them easily understandable to any type of audience. Feynman was firmly opposed to education systems that promoted learning by rote without understanding the concepts.