Sunday, January 15, 2012

Surely you must be joking

It's an autobiography

Childhood
Borrowing the books on Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus at the age of 12 and having to lie about it to the librarian. Learning about taking derivative under Integrals and impressing friends.
Setting up laboratory to do experiments. Fixing radios and becoming known as a boy who fixes by thinking.
Puzzle solver and his date with a girl where he answers all her puzzle before she could even complete the sentence.

MIT and Princeton
Learning about etiquette (the hideous gown to eat meal, attending parties), dating(social vs nerds). His date with waiter that got cancelled by his buddies. Joining jewish fraternities and he ditching those guys. Hazing being left near lake in pitch dark
How he took lot of classes in other department , especially biology. His research, talk(in front of Einstein, Neumann and Pauli)
Playing with cyclotron at Princeton

Math department vs Physics department
Learning group theory. Challenging mathematicians to explain their theory with yes no contest.

Being Curious
Experiential with Ants. Why they walk straight. Leaf cutters are different
Patriotism
Working as a Physicist

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