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Richard Feynman, while still a student at Princeton, found an error in some well known proof, and set himself a rule to double check every theorem he would use.
by sam_goody 2y ago
Richard Feynman, while still a student at Princeton, found an error in some well known proof, and set himself a rule to double check every theorem he would use.
I don't remember the details of the story (I read surely your joking years ago), and remember being amazed by how much time that policy must have cost him.
But now I wonder that he didn't hit dozens or hundreds of errors over the years.
- hughesjj 2y agoI'd be careful taking anything from "surely you're joking" as a fact btw. There's a good popsci comms video on why here https://youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc?si=bpZOBy9WBGQzi6sk https://youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc?si=bpZOBy9WBGQzi6sk
- j16sdiz 2y agoShe is more like complaining some (most?) RPF "bros" act like jerks, emotionally unstable, etc. I guess the same can be said about many other "fanboi", and have little to do with the facts in the book
- hughesjj 2y agoNo, she's claiming that most of those stories were made up by a third guy with Daddy issues (if you want to be reductive)
- blackenedgem 2y agoYou may want to watch this if Surely You're Joking read years ago is your main reference point: https://youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc https://youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc