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Amazon has a list of 100 bestseller books in physics category. this includes popularizations, biographies, textbooks, Carl Sagan, Brian Greene, intelligent design, iffy-physics-of-the-supernatural, physics cartoons and comedy, ANYTHING if it has a connection with physics*. So the competition is quite stiff.
What fraction of the top 100 bestsellers turn out to be books by or about Feynman? What would you guess? you can check here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/14545/ref=pd_ts_b_ldr/102-1454980-4598542&tag=pfamazon01-20
just by scanning down the list. Maybe you won't be surprised. It might be just what you expect. But it surprised me.*they even include a novel by Virginia Woolf called "The Waves" because it has waves in the title.
What fraction of the top 100 bestsellers turn out to be books by or about Feynman? What would you guess? you can check here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/14545/ref=pd_ts_b_ldr/102-1454980-4598542&tag=pfamazon01-20
just by scanning down the list. Maybe you won't be surprised. It might be just what you expect. But it surprised me.*they even include a novel by Virginia Woolf called "The Waves" because it has waves in the title.
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