
The Spread of Feynman Diagrams in the USA, Japan, and the USSR (2004) [pdf] - pja
http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/Kaiser.SpreadingTools.pdf
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pja
Posted this in the discussion on Tesla's shipping difficulties & dctoedt
suggested it be posted on it's own.

Knoweldge transfer is _hard_. This paper is about tracking the spread of the
use of Feynman Diagrams (which helped enormously as an aid to the calculation
of QM results using perturbation methods) within the physics community, but I
think it contains lessons for all of us.

The work was expanding into a book by David Kaiser: “Drawing Theories Apart:
The Dispersion Of Feynman Diagrams In Postwar Physics”
[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002Y5W2X2](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002Y5W2X2)

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tritium
I think knowledge transfer is hard, because teaching requires time for neurons
to reorganize or maybe fix themselves in place, in order to properly cement a
retainable fact. It’s just a quirk of the human condition that amounts of
memory persist at limited speeds.

