How long does it take to read Feynman's Rainbow?
A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow takes about 3 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 191 pages, about 52,525 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For a young physicist struggling to find his place in the world, the relationship that would most profoundly influence his life was with his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Subjects: Science, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Mathematics, Physicists, Biography
