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@ theHigherGeometer
2025-02-24 02:06:50
Apropos nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqqjt7ezyf7cy4hcexevvrlgqqrkahgnd57ksgheecnj6kcdys2j0stv3k8q 's video about Feynman not doing the writing process for books with his name on, it seems he probably didn't proof-read the text much either, in at least one case. The book is about 350 pages long, but the sample errors pointed out in this short paper are pretty bad.
Also, letting Feynman off being sloppy because he was "so smart"?? Give me a break. Private notes are one thing, but publishing a book with hundreds of very subtle errors from the typesetters doing their best with Hibbs doing his best with what he could glean from Feynman is pretty poor. It's not like the book was published by some cheap outfit or some overseas outsourced lowest-bidder contractor, like these days.
Did Hibbs proofread it, and not know that there were mistakes? Why did it take so long to produce this book and did somehow by the end they both didn't care and just wanted it off their plate?
https://www2.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/FeynmanHibbs/ErrorsOfFeynmanHibbsX.pdf
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