[michael_nielsen]

I've heard that Murray Gell-Mann said of this book that "Jim Gleick has written a biography about Feynman's genius in order to illustrate his own". A bit backhanded, perhaps, but it captures the essence well: it's an extraordinary book about an extraordinary person. The best biography I've ever read, along with Skidelsky's one-volume Keynes.

[rcarmo]

That’s a pretty typical Gell-Mann quote, and I don’t think he meant anything bad about it.