Feynman: The Lectures and the Man
DOI: 10.1063/1.4796780
Twenty years ago, I received my undergraduate and graduate education in Mexico and in Britain. I was lucky enough to have lecturers who based their courses on what are still considered the two best encyclopedic physics books ever written: The Feynman Lectures on Physics and the Landau and Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics. Later on, I taught physics using mainly Feynman in undergraduate courses and Landau and Lifshitz in graduate ones. I agree with Matt Sands that Feynman’s books require a lot of complementary effort from the lecturer in setting examples and problems, but my experience, first as a student and later as a lecturer, has led me to believe that the results of studying Feynman are well worth the effort.
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Vicente Aboites. (aboites@cio.mx) Center for Research in Optics, Leon, Mexico, US .
