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I don't know the context of the Gell-Mann quote, but having heard Gell-Mann talk about Feynman, it seems more likely to me that that is Gell-Mann's description
by RK 16y ago
I don't know the context of the Gell-Mann quote, but having heard Gell-Mann talk about Feynman, it seems more likely to me that that is Gell-Mann's description of how Feynman imagined the Feynman algorithm.
- kragen 16y agoConcur. When I head Gell-Mann talk about Feynman (probably this was in 1994) he seemed to think he was about equally smart, but Feynman somehow had much better PR. Probably Feynman writing a series of books of stories about how smart he was had something to do with it.