“Paradoxically, there are many situations where it is actually easier to solve a general problem than it is to solve a specific one.
I also think that this underscores the importance of being willing to learn outside the classroom.”
See this post for a glimpse into the mind of the young Feynman.
Patrick Andrews has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and an MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge.
A former Chartered Engineer and Chartered Mathematician, Patrick has worked in management consultancies and high-tech startups, and in academia as a postdoc in Applied Mathematics at Cambridge and a maths lecturer at De Montfort University.
Patrick is the father of three delightful (but not uniformly mathematical!) daughters.