Remembering a Great Teacher

TL;DR

This paper reflects on the author's memorable experiences with Richard Feynman, highlighting personal interactions, educational materials, and Feynman's influence on quantum mechanics understanding.

Contribution

It provides a personal account and rare insights into Feynman's teaching style, correspondence, and approach to quantum electrodynamics, enriching historical understanding.

Findings

Personal anecdotes of Feynman's teaching and mentorship

Sample problems and study guide on QED by Feynman

Feynman's responses to student correspondence

Abstract

The article is a recollection of the memorable experience of attending a course on Quantum Mechanics given by Feynman in Brasil, as well as several meetings and exchanges Daniele Amati and I had with him over many years, in both the U.S. and Europe. The article also includes a small sample of the problems assigned in the course, a one-page guide, hand-written by Feynman, to study QED on the basis of two of his most important papers, and his reply to a letter of congratulations that the author had sent to him on the occasion of his Nobel Prize Award.