Feynman's last office blackboard

Somebody had the presence of mind to photograph Feynman's office blackboard the day after he died in 1988. Here it is.

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John Baez potpourri

Professor John Baez at UC Riverside has a web site with many unusual and interesting mathematically related demonstrations. Enjoy!

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Fermi questions

1. Links to other links:

Page of links

Added June 19th 2016

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Books

"1. Summing It Up is the latest of the three, but it’s also the most elementary. It’s an introduction to the subject of modular forms, starting at the very beginning. The first half of the book covers in detail some basic ideas about number theory that can be understood in elementary terms, including things like the problems of counting the ways an integer can be a sum of squares or higher powers, or partitioned as a sum of smaller integers. The second half of the book tries to explain in as simple and concrete terms as possible what a “modular form” is, and what some of the properties of such objects are"

More here: Number theory

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Inspiration and encouragement

Study suggestion from Professor Feynman


(drawing from: New York Review of Books)
(quote from: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track)F