The Mechanical universe
by Steven C. Frautschi, Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein · first published 1986
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…for me. Have you tried it? > given the quality of college lectures I attended a university where that wasn't a problem. Prof Daniel Goodstein, for example, turned his lectures into a video series "The Mechanical Universe". But, frankly, I liked his in-person lectures using the blackboard and chalk better.
on “Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom” ↗…seen. I wouldn't privilege them. I took Caltech's intro physics sequence in the mid-80s -- IIRC my freshman year was when they switched from the Feynman Lectures to Goodstein teaching from his new The Mechanical Universe. (Goodstein was one of the pair with the negative quote above.) I thought at the time that the new textbook wasn't bad, but that Feynman was amazing. IIRC much of why they wanted a new book and video…
on “What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?” ↗…social problems operating within a capitalistic framework. Now, science also has problems operating within a feudal/religious framework, like Galileo encountered (and David Goodstein discussed in "The Mechanical Universe"). And science has problems operating within a totalitarian framework like with Lysenkoism in the USSR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism But the key point is, science can have major systematic…
on “Fund ideas, not pedigree, to find fresh insight” ↗