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The best science teacher ever?, 8. Mai 2000
I hold the opinion that Richard Feynman was the best physics teacher of all times. I keep his three red volumes always at the main position of my bookshelves, aside Dirac's "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" and the Landau-Lifshitz collection. What is it that puts them in a class apart from every other introductory text? A Nobel-prize winner, Giaever, I think, said that he seldom had to reach for other book of physics than Feynman's. On the other hand, the very respected mathematician Gian Carlo Rota gave it a bad review, orienting students to go instead to Halliday-Resnick for help. Perhaps these opposite opinions give us a clue: Feynman's "Lectures" are the sole book to present basic physics as a living subject, as real physics, that thing that researchers slowly build in their day-to-day toil.For the author, as always, strived to rebuild everything almost from scratch, sometimes with great originality. This explains why we never grow tired of it. It explains too why it "lacks" the organization of a text designed solely by pedagogical purposes. It's an asset, rather than a liability. If you are a beginner, use both (Feynman and Halliday-Resnick). In Feynman you'll see the magic and understand the beauty of a career in physics, as in nowhere else.
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Still indispensable at the dawn of year 2000, 31. Dezember 1999
You have to disregard it all, Feynman used to say, to come to the subject with a fresh mind. Therefore, explaining the physics in a very personal fashion, Feynman does in his lectures the straight converse of what he thought was good to understand the physics: to never let somebody else tell you what it's all about, to create it by yourself. The best books for studying physics following Feynman's principles are really those with little material, full of equations without phenomenological explanations.What is the real value of these books is not the physics you can learn from them. They are not textbooks, but edited lectures. That's quite of a difference. The real value is a certain conception of how-to-do-the-physics, a daring impudence towards mathematics, put away as a tool, a try-and-see spirit, an exhortation to never mind what's the regular way, a philosophy to imagine and feel before to compute and understand, a humility to put nature first, man after. It's a book to cheer oneself's up, when the equations are all empty to you and you think you're a dope; then read a chapter or two from Feynman, he will tell you it's where all the fun is.
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Impressive..., 31. März 2000
I almost find it a duty to review this book, just in case people click on reviewers' names to find out what good books there are they might not have ordinarily found. This book comes from the perspective of someone who really had a passion for this world and the strange things that exist in it, changing our directions, mocking us as we are blind and literally grasping mysteries all the time.Probably not great for directly learning all the little tactics of "doing" physics. Then again, it is those who are truly interested in what they do, who will learn these tactics themselves. Sometimes all a teacher must do is impart passion and give a person enough knowledge to know what she or he needs to learn. In some sense, Feynman said this in his preface. In any case, if you are looking to be inspired, to turn your head to something that may prove itself more interesting than school may have made it out to be, then take a look.
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