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Which books did Feynman write? Lot's of people have written books and said they're "stories told by Feynman" but that's not really the same thing as "Feynman d

• xboxnolifes 2y ago
  I was under the impression that he didn't write any books. The books attributed to him are transcribed by and edited by other people, with the source of the information being attributed to him (recorded conversations and lectures).
  • cduzz 2y ago
    Right -- for example, the "Joking" and other stories are written by Ralph Leighton[1]. Interestingly, Ralph is son of Robert Leighton[2], the caltech physicist who was a contemporary (and peer) of Feynman's and part of the team that transcribed and edited "the Feynman Lectures". So that's 2 (or 3) of the big books that feynman's said to have written that he was only partially involved with. And lastly, if my dad were a physicist and I went out of my way to write a book about another physicist, and I went out of my way to describe that other physicist as the best and most coolist physicist ever, there's probably an interesting backstory that's not in the book. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Leighton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Leighton [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Leighton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Leighton