
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
The most accessible entry point to Feynman's personality, life, and storytelling voice.

Author guide
Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–1988) was an American theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum electrodynamics, particle physics, and quantum computation. He worked on the Manhattan Project, taught at Cornell and Caltech, and shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum electrodynamics. Feynman was also renowned as an educator and public intellectual through his lectures, textbooks, memoirs, popular science books, correspondence, and accounts of the Challenger investigation.
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The most accessible entry point to Feynman's personality, life, and storytelling voice.
The natural starting point for readers seeking Feynman's foundational teaching in physics.

A concise, highly accessible introduction to Feynman's signature subject, quantum electrodynamics.
Read in order
textbook-series · complete
A three-volume introductory physics textbook series based on Richard Feynman's Caltech undergraduate lectures and edited with Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands.
Book 1 · textbook · 1963
Book 2 · textbook · 1964
Book 3 · textbook · 1965
Outside the series
graphic-nonfiction · 1995
lecture-notes · 1961
lecture-notes · 1962
lecture-collection · 1965
lecture-collection · 1987
lecture-notes · 1995
lecture-collection · 1996
lecture-collection · 1996
essay-collection · 1998
scholarly-monograph · 1965
thesis-collection · 2005
correspondence · 2005
problem-solving supplement · 2006