Interesting book ! Much more interesting than the bad complexity book from Remo Badii and Antonio Politi that gets dusty somehwere on my bookshelf. Even if it is from Cambridge University Press, the Badii and Politi book is one of those disappointing books that you put down again soon everytime you pick it up, because you neve get any interesting inspiration from the mathematical quagmire. Quite different from those classic, timeless books where you discover everytime something new.
The book from Kandel is probably much more rewarding. The amazon.com link for it can be found here http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393058638 Kandel has written this great neuroscience book with James Schwartz and Thomas Jessel, the Kandel Schwartz and Jessell tome, perhaps a kind of neuroscience bible (by the way did you that Obidos is a jungle town on the real-world Amazon near Manaus, located at the bottleneck - the narrowest and swiftest part - of the Amazon river, and also a historic town in Portugal ? I don't know the exact meaning at Amazon.com, probably it was the name of their custom-built e-commerce system that powered the original Amazon.com website - a large CGI program for the e-commerce system which handled different inventory queries, the home page, book detail pages, search, shopping cart, and the order pipeline. All of these pieces of business functionality are now wrapped and executed by different services, today "obidos" seems to be only a custom layer on top of the web servers that parses requests and builds web pages) -J. ________________________________ From: Pamela McCorduck Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:50 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] real tinking I'm just now reading Eric Kandel's graceful memoir, "In Search of Memory." Kandel, a Nobel laureate and biologist, has devoted his life to understanding human memory, which he believes is one of the great puzzles whose solution would lead directly to understanding human thought. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
