Timeline for Why are textbook authors often not the most famous/cited researchers?
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| May 24, 2018 at 12:10 | comment | added | John Coleman | Another good example: Keisler wrote an undergraduate calculus text which was based on nonstandard analysis. Despite the novel approach, it was intended to be a first course in calculus and was used by some universities for that purpose. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 21:27 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @Kimball: While it may have been intended to be used that way, they stopped trying to use Feynman to teach undergraduates at Caltech long ago. Apostol, on the other hand, is still a viable textbook for the right audience. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | Kimball | Well, I sort of think of Feynman's books as being comparable to Apostol's calculus books (in fact, they were both for 1st and 2nd year Math and Physics at Caltech). And to add to the top of your head, Rogawski has a calculus book. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 18:33 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @henning: I'm not sure it is accurate to call Feynman's books "textbooks for service courses", at least not in the traditional sense of the word. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 18:31 | comment | added | henning no longer feeds AI | Also, there's Richard Feynman. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 18:19 | history | answered | Andy Putman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |