{"id":47,"date":"2011-10-27T03:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T03:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katieluper.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-10-27T03:04:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T03:04:50","slug":"lifetime-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Lifetime Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dirac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-48\" title=\"dirac\" src=\"http:\/\/www.katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dirac-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I love to learn. I sometimes do crazy things like read books that aren&#8217;t assigned in school. I had a classmate today that was AMAZED that I would pick up a book on my own that was related to my schoolwork but not required. A few weeks ago I started (and finished! I couldn&#8217;t help it) a biography on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Dirac\">Paul Dirac<\/a>. To explain why I would pick up a biography on a British physicist\/mathematician, I have to first explain my adoration for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Feynman\">Richard Feynman<\/a>. When I was in high school, I read Richard Feynman&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Feynman!\">Surely You&#8217;re Joking, Mr. Feynman<\/a>\u00a0and adored it. The book is full of the most wonderful anecdotes and gives the reader an inspired, almost giddy love of math and science. I then got my hands on his physics lectures and other books and generally learned all about Feynman. Feynman had great respect for Dirac and so I wanted to learn more about Paul Dirac. I marched down to my local bookstore and picked up &#8220;The Strangest Man&#8221; by Graham Farmelo. I loved the book. Dirac is one of those physicists of the time that often gets overlooked for more flamboyant characters like Schrodinger , Heisenberg and Feynman himself.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;m in my physicist phase but if any of you have any great recommendations of books on great engineers, send them my way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to learn. I sometimes do crazy things like read books that aren&#8217;t assigned in school. I had a classmate today that was AMAZED that I would pick up a book on my own that was related to my schoolwork but not required. A few weeks ago I started (and finished! I couldn&#8217;t help &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=47\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lifetime Learning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}