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- From: dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
- Subject: Re: Caltech, Re: Feynman story
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.011931.7047@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
- References: <92309.155316RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> <1992Nov6.140110.5264@panix.com> <BxGxDL.8u1@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 01:19:31 GMT
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- In article <BxGxDL.8u1@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
- awpaeth@watpix.uwaterloo.ca (Alan Wm Paeth) writes:
- >>a little while ago, somebody posted a story to this effect: for a
- >>certain physics exam at caltech, students were allowed to use any
- >>reference material that they could carry in to the room. one
- >>enterprising guy supposedly carried richard feynman in.
- >
- >I heard the story at Caltech in Spring 1975. Feynman was never mentioned --
- >it concerned a geology final with a grad student lugged in. The story is
- >somewhat plausable, given that (a) Caltech students are famous for pranks and
- >(b) open-book exams are quite common there.
-
- It sounds like the first story combines elements of the grad student story
- and a different Feynman story. Namely, an open book physics exam, (probably
- a take home exam -- I don't remember), where the students were allowed to
- use "Feynman". (A standard physics reference is _The Feynman Lectures on
- Physics_, volumes I. II. & III. Often collectively called "Feynman" or
- "the red books".) Supposedly the student contacted Richard Feynman, either
- by phone or by walking into his office. There might well be some elements
- of truth to the story.
-
- Dan Briggs Caltech BS '86, '87
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