The document discusses Richard Feynman's father introducing him to patterns and elementary mathematics at a young age. It also describes them reading about topics like dinosaurs from the Encyclopaedia Britannica when Feynman was very young, with his father sitting him on his lap. The bottom section includes a question about how Feynman got an idea of the size of dinosaurs, and the answer is that his father placed an imaginary dinosaur in their front yard to demonstrate its height relative to their building.

1. Welcome Dears….

2. The Making of a Scientist
-Richard Philips Feynman
(Continuation…)

3. (Continuation of text…)
But my father said, “No, I want to show him
what patterns are like and how interesting they are.
It’s a kind of elementary mathematics.” So he started
very early to tell me about the world and how
interesting it is.
We had the Encyclopaedia Britannica at home.
When I was a small boy he used to sit me on his lap
and read to me from the Britannica. We would be
reading, say, about dinosaurs.

4. Glossary References
 Pattern – Sample
 Elementary – basic
 Encyclopaedia - comprehensive reference
resource

6. Question..
 How did the boy get an idea about the
size of the dinosaur?

7. Answer…
 Boy got the idea by placing the dinosaur in
their front yard and explained its height in
proportion to the building.