Author(s): Leonard Mlodinow

Science & Natural History

Some Time With Feynman is the memoir of a young man trying to find his place in life, and an inspirational portrait of the remarkable person whose wisdom helped him along the way. Who had the greatest influence on your life? Was it a parent, a teacher, a friend? For Leonard Mlodinow it was his college mentor, scientific genius Richard Feynman. This is the candid, rare and moving story of their friendship, and how it would change him forever. Drawing on his intimate conversations with the great physicist, Leonard Mlodinow recounts their time together: from when the nervous, uncertain graduate researcher discovered his Nobel Prize-winning idol had an office down the hall, to the relationship that grew between them and the great lessons it would teach him. Here we see Feynman as never before: unfolding his thoughts on the nature of creativity, his rivalry with Murray Gell-Mann, his love for the women in his life and the cancer that would eventually kill him.