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The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning publications that have remained definitive and introductory to physics for decades. Ranging from the basic principles of Newtonian physics…
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There is no better starting point for preparing yourself to work on disease biology as it applies to cybersecurity than The Feynman Lectures on Physics, which are incredible and I have read (as have some Nobel prize-winning physicists) multiple times over my career.
Most recently, I read the chapters on optics and vision in the first part of 2025 because of research I am now doing on octopuses.
Richard Feynman has been a well-deserved hero in science for at least 65 years. He became a broader cultural hero in the mid 1980s with the publication of Surely You’re Joking…
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