Resource-Rich PhD-Level Self-Education

I don't have a PhD, which is why I have a tremendous amount of respect for PhDs. I hope my question is not too obvious, but when OP says that one will get a "PhD level of education," isn't he missing the fact that the point of a PhD is to do original research, and therefore not just "ingest" knowledge, but actually create new knowledge for humanity?

De Garis appears to have genuinely good intentions to educate the world and thereby free it from war and poverty. Unfortunately, he also comes across as self-important, cantankerous, elitist prick, which makes me think that he is unlikely to make much positive impact. At least the categorized archive of papers appears to be way more useful than his rambling youtube lectures (with a typical view count of 15 over 3 years).

I have no doubt that he is a tremendously important researcher but from the way he talks he sounds like one of those Mensa types. "IQs in the top percentile" and all that.

While this does look like a great resource, I find it hard to take him seriously when he writes things like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;profhugodegaris.wordpress.com&#x2F;masculism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;profhugodegaris.wordpress.com&#x2F;masculism&#x2F;</a>

The title links to an overview of the project. Actual lecture list is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;profhugodegaris.wordpress.com&#x2F;mathphysics-lectures&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;profhugodegaris.wordpress.com&#x2F;mathphysics-lectures&#x2F;</a>

Nothing says &quot;curated list of useful resources&quot; like copying other people&#x27;s lecture notes to your own site &#x2F; Google Docs. For instance, on this list:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;profhugodegaris.wordpress.com&#x2F;classical-mechanics-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;profhugodegaris.wordpress.com&#x2F;classical-mechanics-2&#x2F;</a><p>here&#x27;s a breakdown of the &quot;papers&quot;:<p>* anon, A Brief Introduction to Classical, Statistical, and Quantum Mechanics (free)<p>Not &quot;anon&quot;. Ends with the back cover of the book of the same name by Oliver Buehler.<p>* anon, Classical Mechanics I, Review Problems (free)<p>Not &quot;anon&quot;, as presumably SOMEBODY taught Physics 503a at Emory in 1996 &#x2F; 1997.<p>* anon, Resonances in Classical Mechanics (free)<p>More lecture notes. Who knows where &quot;221B&quot; was taught.<p>* Deotto et al, Hilbert Space Structure in Classical Mechanics, II (free)<p>PDF of an article from the Journal of Mathematical Physics. Not free, see AIP&#x27;s site for terms<p>* Doran, Grassmann Mechanics, Multivector Derivatives and Geometric Algebra (free)<p>Preprint (?) of an article in conference proceedings. Springer may disagree with &quot;free&quot; on this.<p>* Duviryak, Classical Mechanics of Relativistic Particle with Colour (free)<p>Quite far off-topic for a traditional Classical Mechanics course; assumes sizable math (fiber bundles) and physics (Yang-Mills fields) knowledge.<p>* Fitzpatrick, Classical Mechanics, An Introductory Course (free)<p>Another batch of somebody else&#x27;s lecture notes, from 2006.<p>* Forger, Romer, Currents and the Energy-Momentum Tensor in Classical Field Theory, A Fresh Look at an Old Problem (free)<p>This is hep-th&#x2F;0307199 from arXiv.<p>* Hestenes, Hamiltonian Mechanics with Geometric Calculus (free)<p>From the same proceedings as the Doran article above.<p>* Hestenes, Spinor Particle Mechanics (free)<p>Another conference proceeding.<p>* Lasenby et al, Grassmann Calculus, Pseudoclassical Mechanics and Geometric Algebra (free)<p>Another Lasenby &#x2F; Doran &#x2F; Gull paper. This one&#x27;s from J. Math. Phys.<p>* Morin, Introductory Classical Mechanics, with Problems and Solutions (free)<p>This has the copyright notices IN THE PDF, ffs. May be a 2003 draft of Morin&#x27;s 2008 book.<p>* Nelson, Derivation of Schrodinger Equation from Newtonian Mechanics (free)<p>From Physical Review, 1966.<p>* Olshanetsky, Perelomov, Classical Integrable Finite-Dimensional Systems Related to Lie Algebras (free)<p>From Physics Reports. In a new low, has ORDERING INFO on the first page of the PDF. Yep, totes free...<p>* Pascazio, The Action in Classical Mechanics (free)<p>The first one on this list whose source wasn&#x27;t immediately trackable. Reads like a lecture handout.<p>* Pearson, An Exact Classical Mechanics Leads toward Quantum Gravitation (free)<p>Self-published &quot;here&#x27;s my scheme to replace relativity&quot; crankery. This doesn&#x27;t belong here.<p>* Rajeev, PHY 411, Advanced Classical Mechanics (Chaos) (free)<p>More lecture notes, this time from U. of Rochester, 2002.<p>* Rosu, Classical Mechanics (free)<p>This is physics&#x2F;9909035 from arXiv.<p>* Routh, A Treatise on the Dynamics of a Particle (free)<p>Out-of-copyright, as this is from 1898.<p>* Seahra, The Classical and Quantum Mechanics of Systems with Constraints (free)<p>Notes on a course, from a student. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.unb.ca&#x2F;~seahra&#x2F;notes.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.unb.ca&#x2F;~seahra&#x2F;notes.html</a><p>* Tabachnikov, Math Methods of Classical Mechanics (free)<p>More lecture notes, with a bonus giant photo of the original author.<p>* Tabunshchyk, Hamilton-Jakobi Method for Classical Mechanics in Grassmann Algebra (free)<p>This is math-ph&#x2F;9911001 from arXiv.<p>* Tatum, Classical Mechanics (free)<p>Lecture notes from the University of Victoria<p>* Woit, Hamiltonian Mechanics and Symplectic Geometry (free)<p>Lecture notes from Mathematics G6434 at Columbia.<p>---<p>Most of what&#x27;s here isn&#x27;t &quot;free&quot;; arXiv articles and out-of-copyright papers from 1898 are the exceptions not the rule.

&gt; which is a mistake by the way, since it is the alfas who win the Nobel Prizes, the Abel Prizes, who invent the transistors, and write the symphonies. We are the creators and shakers of society. We should not be ignored, we should be worshiped, because it is we who pull the rest of society (the betas) behind us, whether they like it or not.<p>OK. Where would you like me to build your altar?