[bike4beer]

I love Feynman he was an entertainer, but honestly, even CalTech admitted that nobody really advanced in understanding or created anything out his works, its all like intellectual mind candy.

People who understand things who can roll up their sleeves, and get the job done, are a rare breed, this stuff can't be taught.

Later, after you create you can return to Feynman, have a cold-beer, and listen to his lectures and have a good laugh.

[pmoriarty]

"even CalTech admitted that nobody really advanced in understanding or created anything out his works"

Oh, you mean the work Feynman did for which he got the Nobel Prize in Physics?

Good to know that CalTech considers that worthless.

[patrickg_zill]

I am no expert, but do people no longer use Feynman diagrams? Were all his theories on QED superceded by new work?

[throwaway7645]

Yea...his intro series seems to be physics concepts for the non math based majors.

[tgb]

Have you read the Feynman lectures? They're not exactly trivial. They have some diversions towards casual descriptions, but they're quite grounded in mathematics. I haven't watched his course lectures, but I have a hard time believing that they're that different.

He does write explicitly non-math based works as well, like the (IMO excellent) QED book. But I also have his lectures on computation book here, and I had to leave a good number of problems in it unsolved.

[throwaway7645]

Yea, you can watch on YouTube. They aren't very math based. Of course the theory is mathematical, but you won't get that without equations. I'm just talking about his intro course and have never read QED or his lectures on computation. A great scientist making more accomplishments in an afternoon than I will make in my lifetime :).