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Oh, I definitely agree. I appreciate the perspective. The Feynman lectures are great at giving an intuition and perhaps a general framework for thought. What t
by beagle3 5y ago
Oh, I definitely agree. I appreciate the perspective. The Feynman lectures are great at giving an intuition and perhaps a general framework for thought.
What they don’t give you are tools; like you say, you had to learn them in other places before really appreciating the lecture.
But those lectures do seem to leave many people with the feeling they also got the tools and not just the gist.
They are enjoyable. They are informative. But they are not at a textbook level, even though they leave the impression that they are.
- Shugarl 5y agoThe reason why they are so popular is because school/textbook leaves the opposite impression to most people, i.e. we're given tools without the "gist". I'd been in a prep school for 3 years, and people were just regurgitating what they had been shown, applying formulas with a very vague idea of what they're doing or what their results means. School is just about remembering things and finding patterns.
- yesenadam 5y agoThere's a Feynman story in one of his books where he shows a university class a french curve (a very curvy plastic shape used in technical drawing) and explains to them it has the amazing property that no matter how you turn it, the lowest point is tangent to the horizon. No one in the class realized he was just messing with them.