{"id":5689,"date":"2017-06-15T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=5689"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T11:26:26","slug":"daring-fireball-richard-feynmans-prepare-a-freshman-lecture-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/daring-fireball-richard-feynmans-prepare-a-freshman-lecture-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Fireball: Richard Feynman&#8217;s &#8216;Prepare a Freshman Lecture&#8217; Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David L. Goodstein, in his book Feynman\u2019s Lost Lecture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, \u201cDick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.\u201d Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, \u201cI\u2019ll prepare a freshman lecture on it.\u201d But he came back a few days later to say, \u201cI couldn\u2019t do it. I couldn\u2019t reduce it to the fr<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2017\/06\/14\/feynman-freshman-lecture\">Daring Fireball: Richard Feynman&#8217;s &#8216;Prepare a Freshman Lecture&#8217; Test<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David L. Goodstein, in his book Feynman\u2019s Lost Lecture: Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, \u201cDick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestream","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5690,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions\/5690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}