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Feynman wrote in his autobiography that much of his success came from having different mathematical tricks than most of his peers. So when they were stuck, he c
by Animats 11mo ago
Feynman wrote in his autobiography that much of his success came from having different mathematical tricks than most of his peers. So when they were stuck, he could sometimes make progress.
- seanhunter 11mo agoInterestingly, one of his famous tricks of computing complex integrals by parameterizing[1] and then differentiating under the integral is known as “Feynman’s trick” in his honour spite of it having been invented by Euler over 250 years before. [1] https://zackyzz.github.io/feynman.html https://zackyzz.github.io/feynman.html
- tux3 11mo agoA popular naming convention in Mathematics is to name things after the second person to discover them. The first person is Leonhard Euler.
- rramadass 11mo agoLeonhard Euler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler) is the only reason i believe in "extraterrestrial life" which are "more intelligent" than us :-) List of topics named after Leonhard Euler - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_named_after_Leonhard_Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_named_after_Leo...
- nabla9 11mo agoHe had many tricks in limited area. All his his tricks were limited to classical calculus and nineteenth-century mathematics. He didn't do anything fancy. His style was always the same, he just mastered it really well.
- 19f191ty 11mo agoThat is the actual trick. To master one trick so well that you can spot anywhere its hiding. Unfortunately, this takes a long time, which is why most mathematicians can only do it for a couple of tricks in their lifetime
- NebulaStorm456 11mo agoFeynman used to read his own books. When asked he said, "it's all in here". He used to revise and refresh his own understanding.
- djmips 11mo agoI get that. Sometimes it feels like we are like Dynamic RAM.