Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
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Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
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Re: Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
#2“Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.”
That seems a reasonable goal.
Re: Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
#3Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is one of my favorite books. We lost him much too soon.
Re: Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
#4Richard Feynman having the quantum Hall effect on his "to learn" list is amazing. I mean, it makes sense, because less than three years before he died the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for its discovery. But it shows that even one of the greatest physicists of his generation had not fully grasped something that is now part of every undergraduate physics degree's standard curriculum and is arguably much less complicated than, say, Feynman's contributions to Quantum Electrodynamics.
Re: Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
#5Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is one of my favorite books. We lost him much too soon.
I was a UCLA anesthesiology attending in the 1980s when Feynman came to our OR for an abdominal procedure after having been diagnosed with kidney cancer. I watched as he was wheeled down the hall toward OR 9, our largest, reserved for major complicated operations. As he was wheeled into the room, he clasped his two hands above his head like a prizefighter.
Re: Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
#6Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is one of my favorite books. We lost him much too soon.
I found this to be illuminating:
Re: Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
#7"What I cannot create, I do not understand."
"Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.”
Re: Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
#8Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is one of my favorite books. We lost him much too soon.
"the sham legacy of Richard Feynman" is about Feynman being famous because of this book rather than because of his physics. The YouTuber, an obsessed physicist who had spent months reading all Feynman books, provides a critical analysis and explains the cultural impact of "Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!"
Re: Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
#9“Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.” That seems a reasonable goal.
By who standard? It seems like an unsolvable problem to know every problem that is actually been solved correctly...