Hard to say. The Feynman Lectures aren’t universally loved. Physics courses that used hem as a textbook lost a lot of students although I read them myself on the way to a physics PhD and enjoyed them.
In physics I think there is no opportunity in research to do what Feynman did. Sure Ed Witten is a smart guy and did some really cool math but he hasn’t done a single thing connected to experiments and quite possibly his work will never be confirmed.
I know a prof who is famous for his machine learning work who has written some undergrad textbooks that I was impressed with but someone who worked with him as a TA (and now teaches CS at a small Christian college) was not impressed with that prof’s commitment to education.
I’m sure people who have done important research (say in biomedicine) have written great textbooks and done research but I don’t know them my name.
PaulHoule|1 year ago
In physics I think there is no opportunity in research to do what Feynman did. Sure Ed Witten is a smart guy and did some really cool math but he hasn’t done a single thing connected to experiments and quite possibly his work will never be confirmed.
I know a prof who is famous for his machine learning work who has written some undergrad textbooks that I was impressed with but someone who worked with him as a TA (and now teaches CS at a small Christian college) was not impressed with that prof’s commitment to education.
I’m sure people who have done important research (say in biomedicine) have written great textbooks and done research but I don’t know them my name.
FrankWilhoit|1 year ago
sky2224|1 year ago