Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:52 am Post subject: I posted this at literatureforums.net just now
In yahoo chat, I met an Italian physicist who is (or was, for this happened a year or so ago), translating the works of Feynmann into Italian. He was looking for a native speaker to help him with an obscure letter. Actually, it was the letters and correspondence of Feynmann that he was translating.
The obscurity involved a letter to his mother. There was some mention of a "fan". The translator finally decided that the "fan" referred to an electric fan. The letter was before the days of air conditioning. Feynmann's mother apparently refused his offer of some financial assistance. He made some passing remark about a fan (meaning, to cool off).
I remember a PBS documentary/interview with Feynmann. He liked to play the bongos, and his two volumn "Lectures in Physics", shows him playing the bongos in the introduction.
One criticizm of Feynmann which I have heard is that he was rather conceited and egocentric. I suppose it is difficult to be a genius and maintain a demeanor of humility and altruistic concern.
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