Richard Feynman is misunderstood | Grant Sanderson and Lex Fridman

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[ericjohnson]

Minor correction: Feynman’s first wife died of tuberculosis, while he was working @Los Alamos with the Manhattan Project.
The love letter he wrote her after she died is one of the most touching things I’ve ever read.

[Igor-uguo]

I took a physics class in Oakland University in Michigan a few years ago. When the professor asked if anyone knew about Feynman, only one person and myself raised hands out of 100 students.
The myth about Feynman is that he is well known.

[bryanreed]

I flatly disagree that he's "not like him at all." The ability to explain complex things simply is rare and valuable, and this guy has it.

[lazybear]

I had Feynman as a professor at Caltech and I think he wasn't a math person, but at a very high level. He was interested in applied math and not the pure proof-based math of the sort favored by those trying for the Fields Medal. But of course, he was eminently interested in applied math and how to use it to work out problems in physics, etc. Like other physicists at Caltech, he would sometimes jokingly say, "As physicists we just assume all equations are differentiable."

[raymondwilson]

One thing that Mr Sanderson shares with Mr Feynman is the ability to explain complex subjects in terms a less mathematical person can understand.

[arvind]

This guy surely loves Feynman so much so that he went on to rock same hairstyle as Mr. Feynman 😀

[AdamGeorgiou]

Minor correction: pretty sure his first wife had tuberculosis, not polio.

[bhuvaneshs.k]

Wait common public think Richard Feynman is not a math guy...?? Hmmm I never knew that. It's so obvious that he's passionate and great in math

[Overlorddz]

Feynman is so likable because he was able to translate hardcore quantum stuff into normal language. He would visualize the smallest subatomic details and make sense out of it for anyone to understand. So he was not only a great scientist, he was a genius teacher as well.

[michaelzumpano]

Lex, Grant is a wonderful intuitive unfiltered speaker. I hope you do many interviews with him. I think the genius of your interview style is that you are an excellent catalyst. You ask questions and give responses and explanations that really open up your guests. They’re so engaged that they just gush.

[losboston]

A beautiful example of Feynman "discovering it for himself" is his proof that the planets must follow elliptical paths around the sun.

[brunospasta]

As soon as Grant spoke I was like: "Hey, I know this voice!!" : D

[esra_erimez]

As someone that greatly admires Richard Feynman, I am glad that we someone as gifted as Grant Sanderson today.

[HarDiMonPetit]

I still remember these 2 pages in which Feynman, just starting from th Coulomb equation and the Heisenberg uncertainty inequalities deduced the approximate radius of the hydrogen atom. And this makes you touch that quantum mechanics is not kind of a luxury of the mind, but the right explanation of the very consistence of matter, its tangibility. Kind of magic, uh?

[hrishirajroy]

He's right when he speaks about how self-discovery slows you down, at the same time being so much fun. Wish there were a solution to this.

[xenialafleur]

Feynman's QED is one of my favorite books. It's a great intro to Quantum physics.

[raypraise]

Feynman was a genius in the true sense of the word...He mastered physics as well as the depths of understanding needed & was bored.

[ankitsinghjavac]

why no one is talking about grant's emergent bicep???

[carlosgaspar]

not sure how someone could have read surely you're joking and not realized how good feynman was at math...in his head.

[SM-oswq]

These two things aren’t mutually exclusive. Yes, he was a philanderer, brilliant and also loved his first wife. He was also sometimes disturbingly condescending towards women and also supported women in science. You can be all those things. He was admirable in some ways and deplorable in some.