[sillysaurusx]

I heard that Feynman's lectures weren't written entirely by Feynman, but were actually a collaboration between a bunch of physicists. Is that true? Where can I read about the history of this aspect?

(It appears in the footnotes Feynman's Lectures on Computation, toward the end of the book. https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard...)

Reading through the lectures, you get the sense that it's superhuman to be able to write all of them. Once someone mentioned that it wasn't only Feynman doing the writing, it made a bit more sense.

[gowld]

Feynman wrote the notes and delivered the lectures, based on existing source like textbooks. Then it got cleaned up into a book format, and I assume the chalkboard drawings were re-created and expanded.

[ducttapecrown]

About the Authors page: https://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_89.html

[kaidon]

Standing on the shoulders of giants

[fsckboy]

I've always liked "if I haven't seen as far as some of my peers, it's because I stand in the footprints of giants"

[linspace]

The giants are so high by now that is hard just to reach the shoulders

[Qem]

Indeed. We need to build some sort of scalator, so more people get a shot at arriving there, instead of spending whole careers just to fall midway, nowhere near the shoulders.