Re:Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's le...
by throwaway_bad on Thursday October 24, 2019 @06:20PM
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It's easy to gain physical intuition because you can often explain one physical phenomenon in terms of another physical phenomenon that you have much more real life experience with.
But with mathematics, "intuitive" analogies are all in terms of other mathematical objects! You can't build intuition if you don't even know what they trying to abstract over.
In that regards, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is fantastic because it maps out how the different fields of mathematics are interrelated.
Re:Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's le...
by oarabbus_ on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:01PM
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This. I think everyone in this topic is missing the point of what makes the Feynman Lectures unique.
Re:Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's le...
by adrianmonk on Thursday October 24, 2019 @04:41PM
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I'd use 3 words to describe Feynman's style: clarity, accessibility, and fascination.
To me the unique aspect is more the uncompromising intuitionistic approach with little consideration/adaptation for “shallow/correlative thinkers”...