Perfectly Reasonable Deviations

A couple things Richard Feynman.

First, Suresh at Geomblog posted a piece about new stamps honoring four scientists including John von Neumann and Richard Feynman. A trip to the post office is in the works.



Next, my latest book purchase is a collection of Feyman's letters titled Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard Feyman. His daughter Michelle wrote the introduction which includes a some great anecdotes such as the time her high school math teacher told her father he didn't know anything about math; another introductory anecdote involves the courtship of Feynman and her mother Gwyneth.

As far as the letters themselves go the most interesting ones I've read so far include one to his mother describing the Trinity Test and a poignant letter written to his high school sweetheart and first wife Arlene a year after her death.