Some Time with Feynman

This title tells the story of Leonard Mlodinow's first year on the Caltech faculty in the winter of 1981. It is the narrative of himself as a young physicist trying to find his place in the world and the wisdom of an old, and dying physicist who helped him, the legendary Richard Feynman.

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Feynman's Rainbow is the story of a young physicist trying to find his place in the world, and his relationship with the famous, old, and dying Nobel Prize winner down the hall, Richard Feynman.

In 1981 Mlodinow was a confused and intimidated graduate student in California. In Feynman, he found the wise and liberating mentor he needed to discover a new approach to life.