tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post8779765400768048173..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Feynman Lectures: EpilogueSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-27810442965291910112014-12-10T02:27:18.383-05:002014-12-10T02:27:18.383-05:00"I never taught elementary physics before, an..."I never taught elementary physics before, and I apologize"<br /><br />Good for him - he fully understood his limitations. As someone who once made a very serious and prolonged attempt to flunk classes and use "Feynman lectures" instead, as someone likely not bright enough to be needing the actual help in understanding things, I found that Feynman lectures totally sucked. I DKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-6341372252476489082014-12-09T11:29:17.920-05:002014-12-09T11:29:17.920-05:00I know you're correct, and I've really tri...I know you're correct, and I've really tried, but I get bored. Bertrand Russell said somewhere that the truth, if found, may prove uninteresting. I think he was correct too!Quercusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-26589156238692920582014-12-08T21:45:48.345-05:002014-12-08T21:45:48.345-05:00"But there was someone who gave Feynman a tas..."But there was someone who gave Feynman a taste of his own medicine. The Norwegian-American physicist Ivar Giaever once suffered through a lecture with Feynman. Two years later, he came back to Caltech to give another lecture. This time, however, Giaever not only answered Feynman to the point, but made him look stupid. Obviously, he had done a good job of preparing ahead, deliberately Rastus Odinga-Odinganoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-22550079433089894542014-12-08T07:31:18.817-05:002014-12-08T07:31:18.817-05:00Ricky, I have encountered countless examples on th...Ricky, I have encountered countless examples on the physics preprint archive, arXiv. To find them for your chosen topic, try google searching "lectures [topic] site:arxiv.org".Cliffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-75894251235477034212014-12-08T01:10:09.242-05:002014-12-08T01:10:09.242-05:00Dr. Hsu,
In addition to Feyman's Lectures (on ...Dr. Hsu,<br />In addition to Feyman's Lectures (on physics, gravitation, computation, statistical mechanics, etc.), are there any other famous "Lectures on..." books in physics by other authors that physics undergrad and graduate students should know about?Rickynoreply@blogger.com