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How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
- 8bitsrule 5y agoWow. Don't see many 'how to get your act together' articles from Nobel-prize winners! "If you really want to contribute to our theoretical understanding of physical laws... It should be possible, these days, to collect all knowledge you need from the internet.... Is it possible to weed out those very rare pages that may really be of use? I know exactly what should be taught to the beginning student. The names and topics of the absolutely necessary lecture courses are easy to list, and this is what I have done below." And he does just that! E.g. Here's the page with the recommended sites for Computational Physics. [https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/compphys.html https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/compph...] (Looks like some of the links don't work any longer.)