Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988)
by archermarks on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:24PM
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The video is not about Feynman's actual career. That's actually the point -- the idea of Feynman people have in their minds is totally divorced from the actual person and his work.
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Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988)
by vonneumannstan on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:25PM
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Maybe true in the early 90s but I don't imagine really anyone in the general public is familiar with him anymore. Physicists know of him.
>is about Feynman being famous because of this book rather than because of his physics.
Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988)
by wholinator2 on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:58PM
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People still do very much know of him. My mother is the person who introduced me to his book. I was showing some interest in science in school when it was presented to me though. Though he's probably waning from "household name" status he's likely still widely known
Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988)
by Xelynega on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:03AM
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A lot of the comments on this post are references to the book "surely you're joking Mr Feynman", which was a collection of stories(with a lot of embellishment) told by Feynman.
That is the "sham legacy of Richard Feynman", the fact that most people remember him for stories and not his work