While these are just a few of the memorable stories of Feynman's book, which I strongly suggest reading to anybody with an interest in math or science, there are many more, which are funnier and are  told much better by Feynman than by me. I have also read What Do You Care What Other People Think? which is the sequel. While this one is more serious and focuses more on his dying wife than his hilarious stories throughout his life, I would suggest it for anybody who really likes Feynman. Along with these tales, he also talks about one on one math contests he has with people, which I don't think anybody could beat him at. He explains some amazing ways to think about things such as computing difficult logs in his head, and makes them seem extremely simple. Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman is probably the funniest book I have ever read, and gives a very interesting view into the life of a great scientist and amazing man.

by Josiah Thornton

        If any of you have not yet attended a math tea, I would like to inform you that you are missing out on a great opportunity. This last tea that we had was with Professor Vaintrob. As I only have a limited amount of space, I can only give you a taste of what occurred during the tea.
       First of all, do you have to like tea to go to one of these meetings? No, of course you don't. The idea of the tea is not to broaden the minds of the students in the way of hot beverages, it is intended to give you a chance to ask a professor questions about how math has changed the life of that professor, or about some of the topics that are currently of interested to him.
      In particular, during this tea, Professor Vaintrob talked about math during his youth, knot theory, and a little about Fermat. When asked about the time that he discovered he was going to be doing math for most of his life, Arkady (Vaintrob) mentioned that when he was in 6^th grade his teacher told him that he was going to teach math. Upon hearing this, Arkady thought that the teacher was completely wrong. But, he was good at math and in Russia, they had a centralized education system, so he was offered a chance to specialize more in math. As he studied math he got better and around 8^th grade he realized what the teacher had talked to him about. As he was excelling at math, he was given several opportunities to do some math research during the summers. He said that this was not to replace a formal education but very similar to the REU's that we have in America for college undergrads (which were another topic of the tea).