Richard Feynman Learned Basic Calculus With This Book

This is one of the books that Richard Feynman used to learn math. It is called Calculus for the Practical Man and it is part of the Mathematics for Self Study series.

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[AlexandreAbreu]

I'm a simple man, I see Feynman wrote, I click

[byronwilliams]

Books with solutions are so under rated

[realalehomebrewer]

But Feynman read the book in middle school. Pure genius

[Onoma]

Man, I'd have loved to have seen Feynman's bookshelf

[taradise_x]

I’ve been considering a new hobby. This just sparked something in me.

[juliusfucik]

When I was doing my electrodynamics course, I failed the first time, because the book we used was so bad. The teacher was pretty bad too. A typical researcher who was forced to teach as well.

Then I got the Lectures in Physics by Feynman. I got an A on the second try. The way Feynman explains stuff in these books is amazingly easy to understand. He does not plaster the pages with formulas just to show how clever he is. He writes a lot of words to explain everything. Lots of examples.

I wish I had this book when I was taught Calculus.

[theblackpinecooktop]

I just bought the whole 5 book set for $5 at a thrift store. All of them still have the dust jackets! Super, super rad find.

[dennisfahey]

It's just a "proper" textbook. In the past they assumed a scholar would self-educate and wrote the books as such. The modern textbooks - dominated by a handful of publishers - are designed to sell collateral teaching material and to feed a specific Standardized Test definition of proficiency. It is clear when you compare the fluidity of the cadence of this book to the modularity and voids of a modern, often larger ($$$) textbook.

[IGNITION]

I need Calculus for the Impractical Man

[dreamingfool]

I have almost the whole set 😂 I was homeschooled and my mom thought they'd be a good addition to our math curriculum.

[bbasil]

Oof, those old, physical calculus textbooks. Bring out so many memories. Mostly fails, but not without triumphs

[stevemenegaz]

On Page 300 of 360, you can see where Feynman borrowed for his Physics lectures.

[nchz]

My gateway drug was "ABCs of Calculus" by Rufus P. Turner, this seems similar in style and content.

[averege_math-and-physics-major]

I have read it from the library it was really good

[JustABean]

Oh yes! I have the whole set... And you can download it's pdfs from google too...!!
Btw this book is probably the best one i've had yet on calc...

[BellaRocko]

True story: The librarian would not let him check out the book at first, saying that it's too advanced for him. So Feynman came back at a later day to check out the book, but this time he told the librarian that it was for his dad!

[joshwilliams]

The red one is the second edition. Feynman used the first edition, which is blue and a little harder to come by these days. In high school, he read Advanced Calculus by Woods. I've been wanting to get a copy of that one for years, but it's always too expensive when it shows up on eBay.

[joshpulliam]

Man I appreciate this video so much! Thanks for the inspiration!!!

[paintedhorse]

Other great books like this are 1, 2, 3 Infinity, and Mathematics for the Millions.

Great pocket guides are the Pocket Ref. By Thomas J. Glover. My father had a copy of the 1st edition for years.

[lizardhyper]

Just smelling this thing will integrate you into a new view of the world.