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I heard that Feynman's lectures weren't written entirely by Feynman, but were actually a collaboration between a bunch of physicists. Is that true? Where can I
by sillysaurusx 5y ago
I heard that Feynman's lectures weren't written entirely by Feynman, but were actually a collaboration between a bunch of physicists. Is that true? Where can I read about the history of this aspect?
(It appears in the footnotes Feynman's Lectures on Computation, toward the end of the book. https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard_P._Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Computation__-Addison-Wesley%281996%29.pdf https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard...)
Reading through the lectures, you get the sense that it's superhuman to be able to write all of them. Once someone mentioned that it wasn't only Feynman doing the writing, it made a bit more sense.
- ducttapecrown 5y agoAbout the Authors page: https://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_89.html https://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_89.html
- kaidon 5y agoStanding on the shoulders of giants
- fsckboy 5y agoI've always liked "if I haven't seen as far as some of my peers, it's because I stand in the footprints of giants"
- linspace 5y agoThe giants are so high by now that is hard just to reach the shoulders
- Qem 5y agoIndeed. We need to build some sort of scalator, so more people get a shot at arriving there, instead of spending whole careers just to fall midway, nowhere near the shoulders.
- purple1 5y ago
- gowld 5y agoFeynman wrote the notes and delivered the lectures, based on existing source like textbooks. Then it got cleaned up into a book format, and I assume the chalkboard drawings were re-created and expanded.