![]() Kac recalls that he stood on the shoulders of an earlier thinker, while “Feynman, as in everything else he has done, stood on his own, a trick of intellectual contortion that he alone is capable of.” ![]() The late Mark Kac, a gifted mathematician and a collaborator of Feynman’s, relates in his own autobiography how in one instance they solved the same mathematical puzzle in different ways. He was a great physicist who looked on nature afresh each day. ![]() He called himself “a curious character.” Certainly he achieved that status: self-created eccentric, would-be 20th-Century Leonardo, all-around genius with the added fillip of a sense of humor. ![]() The announcement of Richard Feynman’s death in February startled many of us who had known the Nobel Laureate at Caltech, even as we acknowledged that the cancer that killed him could not be fended off indefinitely. ![]()
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