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This is great... "One method comes from the physicist John Wheeler (the PhD advisor of Richard Feynman). Wheeler recommended that, after we solve any problem,
by espeed 15y ago
This is great...
"One method comes from the physicist John Wheeler (the PhD advisor of Richard Feynman). Wheeler recommended that, after we solve any problem, we think of one sentence that we could tell our earlier self that would have 'cracked' the problem. This kind of thinking turns each problem and its solution into an opportunity for reflection and for developing transferable reasoning tools."
- neutronicus 15y agoThat always struck me as the natural way to compress knowledge for exams. I've got nowhere near the intellect to remember whole derivations and proofs, so I have to boil them down just to have any hope of retaining them. Doesn't always work, though. Turns out that memorizing the form of the Lorentz transformation will allow you to solve arbitrary length contraction / time dilation type problems, but nowhere near as quickly as the physics GRE demands. C'est la vie.