5; Anchor podcasts #231-#236

Anchor podcast #231

DEATH WILL BE CURED 

R.P. Feynman: THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT (PENGUIN BOOKS), p. 100

Kishalay Sinha [G] Dec 29, 2021 

Anchor podcast #232

PROFESSOR 

Richard P. Feynman: SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN! (Random House), p. 279-282

Kishalay Sinha [G] 1 Jan 2022

Anchor podcast #233

PUZZLE SOLVER  

Richard P. Feynman: SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN! (Random House), p. 21-22

[I get it. - G]

Kishalay Sinha [G] 1 Jan 2022

Anchor podcast #234

THE BEAUTY OF A FLOWER 

Richard P. Feynman: THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT (PENGUIN BOOKS), p. 2

[sounds like the proverbial mad scientist in illustrated comic books]

Kishalay Sinha [G] 1 Jan 2022

Anchor podcast #235 

THIS SIDE IDOLATRY 

 

Richard P. Feynman: THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT (PENGUIN BOOKS), p. vii-ix, xi

Kishalay Sinha [G] 2 Jan 2022

WANT TO STUDY PHYSICS?

Want to study physics? Read these 10 books (14:15) / Simon Clark (YouTube) 

I wonder if this guy is pretending to be an Oxford student or a former Oxford student and feigns an "Oxford" accent to parody My stylish English pronunciation. I suspect that he is actually a fun-loving American youth who has got hold of some random physics and math books or maybe were given to him by Amazon to do an ad for Amazon. I could talk endlessly about interesting books on math and physics etc. that I have seen and bought and read and enjoyed and want to buy and read and enjoy. I am surprised that he recommends a book on thermodynamics by Landau and his wife Mrs. Landau, which I have not yet seen but which SEEMS to be a tough book full of mathematics - I have seen the famous volumes on theoretical physics by Landau and Lifshitz which seem rather tough. Three interesting books on applied math are by* (1) Pipes (2) Pipes and Harvill and (3) Sokolnikoff and Redheffer. Schaum's Outlines are top guides. (A math Schaum's Outline I bought in Chicago helped Me score 100% on Laplace Transforms M.S. math test at UIC.) Indian students are lucky that TMH, New Delhi, has already published many low-priced Indian reprints of Schaum's Outlines. I have bought 30-40 Tata McGraw-Hill (TMH) Schaum's Outlines on physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, biochemistry, electronics, computer science, electrical engineering, anatomy, mechanical engineering, English short story writing etc. Indian publishers regularly publish low cost excellent guide books on mathematics at all levels from school to university level. (I use standard RP English pronunciation. I am not impressed by artificial "Oxford accent" nor by artificial "BBC accent". Both sound FAKE to Me. - G)

* I saw the fascinating books by Pipes and by Sokolnikoff and Redheffer when I was a B.Sc. Physics Honours student at (then all male) St. Stephen's College, Delhi. (We had our physics honours classes and subsidiary chemistry classes taught by faculty of Delhi University nearby. The coed classes at Delhi University included boys and girls from other colleges like Hindu College etc. Of course, I did not speak to any of My girl classmates. I am not a sugary seni - an Assamese word.) I bought Pipes and Harvill in India and took it to America and left it in My uncle's house in Oak Park, Chicago, along with all My other books in his house, when I returned to India. My affectionate uncle Sankar Sinha told Me afterwards when he came on a visit to India that he had given all My books in his rented house to Oak Park Library, an excellent quiet library with polite library staff I used to visit when I lived with My uncle's family in Oak Park. I used to attend M.S. classes in math at UIC on UIC scholarship, going to and fro in a Toyota car driven by My cousin brother who was then a freshman B.S. student at UIC. Earlier, I was a Ph.D. student at UIUC on UIUC scholarship, where My guide was Dr. Howard S. Ducoff, professor of physiology and biophysics and of bioengineering, who gave a strong letter of recommendation to the department of mathematics, statistics and computer science of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) which ensured My admission to UIC and university scholarship from UIC; Dr. Govindjee, who was professor of biophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) was Chairman of the Graduate Admissions Committee of the department of physiology and biophysics at UIUC which gave Me a Ph.D. scholarship; I am grateful to the kind faculty and staff of UIUC and UIC. (I have read that Hemingway who won the Nobel Prize for Literature used to live in Oak Park.)

Kishalay Sinha [G] January 2/3, 2022

Feynman Lectures on Physics 

TEDx Caltech - Adam Cochran - The Electronic "Feynman Lectures on Physics" (3:51) / TEDx Talks (YouTube)

Unboxing Feynman Lectures on Physics (6:30) / Garden of Physics (YouTube)

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Full name of Richard P. Feynman: Richard Phillips Feynman 

Kishalay Sinha [G] January 3, 2022

Anchor podcast #236 

THE FEMALE MIND 

 

Richard P. Feynman: THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT (PENGUIN BOOKS), p. 175-176

Kishalay Sinha [G] 3 Jan 2022

WHAT IS SCIENCE? 

Richard Feynman - What is science from "Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (3:33) / Kris Wilgocki (You Tube) 

Kishalay Sinha [G] January 4, 2022 (IST)

Feynman 

The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: Life And Science Of Richard Feynman / Project Bhagwati (45:45) / Project Bhagwati (YouTube)

The speaker passed out from IIT, Guwahati (My home town). 

There is a funny picture of Feynman in this video (35:28-36:18) - holding bongo drums and wearing a funny-looking very short shirt and showing his abdomen (like modern girls like to expose their abdomen and show their navel, I don't know why).

Kishalay Sinha [G] January 4, 2022 (IST)