Feynman Lectures On Computation

Posted on 09 August 2017 by Richard P. Feynman

When, in 1984 86, Richard P Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book Although led by Feynman, the course also featured, as occasional guest speakers, some of the most brilliant men in science at that time, including Marvin Minsky, Charles Bennett, and John Hopfield Although the lectures are now thirteen years old, most of the material is timeless and presents a Feynmanesque overview of many standard and some not so standard topics in computer science such as reversible logic gates and quantum computers. New Read Feynman Lectures On Computation [ Author ] Richard P. Feynman [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr There s a reason Richard Feynman is the most famous physics lecturer of all time No, it s not because he held his office hours in a strip club though he did or that he helped develop the atomic bomb though he did or that he openly abused drugs, attended nudist gatherings, and played the bongos though he did Surely these have contributed to his legend but, most importantly, RPF was a master of the analogy Warning Impending Tangent on Science Education and ModelingScience education lends There s a reason Richard Feynman is the most famous physics lecturer of all time No, it s not because he held his office hours in a strip club though he did or that he helped develop the atomic bomb though he did or that he openly abused drugs, attended nudist gatherings, and played the bongos though he did Surely these have contributed to his legend but, most importantly, RPF was a master of the analogy Warning Impending Tangent on Science Education and ModelingScience education lends itself very ...There is much that is meritorious here Feynman s distinctive voice comes through clearly One gets an insight into both his teaching philosophy and his working methods The book heavily reflects what Feynman thought was important, interesting and essential to know about the field and makes accessible some really unusual topics as well as some familiar ones if one has ever done an entry level course on the subject There is a 10p memoir of Feynman by the book s editor at the end, which contain There is much that is meritorious here Feynman s distinctive voice comes through clearly One gets an insight into both his teaching philosophy and his working methods The book heavily reflects what Feynman thought was important, interesting and essential to know about the field and makes accessible some really unusual topics as well as some familiar ones if one has ever done an entry level course on the subject There is a 10p memoir of Feynman by the book s editor at the end, which contains some delightful anecdotes that are not recorded elsewhere in the Feynman canon.Feynman s working method, which he encourages others to adopt, was to work out as much as he can on his own first and look up what others had done afterwards He would find that ...This is a nice book Feynman s colloquial style is engaging Most of the material in the book is quite interesting I was a little bit disappointed by chapter 6 Quantum Mechanical Computers perhaps it was too early to talk about quantum computers at that time For example, discussion of decoherence is miss...Somewhat of a mixed bag The first half is very interesting, then kind of loses steam towards the end It seems like some course lecture notes were somewhat quickly tossed together to make a book this could have ben...When Computer Science was in its infancy most Computer Scientists were Engineers , Mathematicians and Physicists On a first read this book is brilliant explanation of the fundamentals of Computation and Telecommunications Feynman nicely summarizes Computation and Information Theory The comparison of a computer to a clerk was interesting and humorous Electrical Engineering students would find his description of Flip Flops, S...Wild academic interests together with empowering teaching methodology Emphasis on empowering Feynman is heavily armed with wit and tease pushing you to enjoy yourself rediscovering things using your own means This is the only way you can appreciate other people s ideas to really understand things and have fun learning At the very beginning, he tells an amusing history about a strange sequence of numbers that he once discovered Just to learn afterwards that a clever guy called Bernoulli ha Wild academic interests together with empowering teaching methodology Emphasis on empowering Feynman is heavily armed with wit and tease pushing you to enjoy yourself rediscovering things using your own means This is the only way you can appreciate other people s ideas to really understand things and have fun learning At the very beginning, ...BasicIn the classic Feynman style, clearer and better than soome lecturers in the fieldBrilliant overview of key issues for computation Obviously some is dated this book is based on lectures given in 84 86 but much of the material appears to me speaking well outside of my domain of expertise that...A lot of this seems pretty dated The chapter on coding and information theory was a decent introduction, and the quantum computation material was interesting from a historical point of view, since Feynman seems to have been the first person to seriousl...

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09 August 2017

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