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The title is misleading. That website has existed for a long, long time. I remember reading lectures there at least five years ago. Unfortunately, I cannot pro
by p-e-w 3y ago
The title is misleading. That website has existed for a long, long time. I remember reading lectures there at least five years ago.
Unfortunately, I cannot prove it, because the domain has been excluded from the Internet Archive for some reason. But I can tell you with complete confidence that the lectures have not just "now" gone online.
- cryptoegorophy 3y agoSame. I do remember seeing them on cal tech website for free. Honestly amazed that such great content is out there for free.
- dang 3y agoWe've changed the title now. (Submitted title was "Feynman Lectures on Physics now entirely online") Supporting evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36018344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36018344
- vmilner 3y agoI think the audio recordings were added more recently than the text. I used to have to listen to my commercial CDs of the lectures while reading the online text.
- codelieb 3y agoThe lecture recordings were added to The Feynman Lectures Website in 2021. It was not easy to convince the publisher (Basic Books) who licenses the exclusive publication rights for The Feynman Lectures on Physics (including the recordings) to allow us to publish them online for free listening. In fact it took many years of persistent pestering. :-)
- codelieb 3y agoThe original Feynman Lectures Website was feynmanlectures.info, which went online in 2006. The online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics was published there in 2013, and also mirrored at a new Caltech website, feynmanlectures.caltech.edu. Some years later (I forget exactly when) feynmanlectures.info was shut down and its contents was moved to feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/info.