Dick Feynman was smart but he did stage-manage himself a bit. I was lucky to be there when he gave his lectures. However, the downside was that the physics problems did NOT match the lectures, and the phys recitations were hell. In later years (40 years later!) he issued what amounted to an apology for fucking us over, in the form of 'Feynman's Tips On Physics' explaining what he failed to tell us at the time of the lectures. There are a lot of dirty little secrets about Caltech.
Dick Feynman was smart but he did stage-manage himself a bit. I was lucky to be there when he gave his lectures. However, the downside was that the physics problems did NOT match the lectures, and the phys recitations were hell. In later years (40 years later!) he issued what amounted to an apology for fucking us over, in the form of 'Feynman's Tips On Physics' explaining what he failed to tell us at the time of the lectures. There are a lot of dirty little secrets about Caltech.
Thanks for sharing that history.