I have Kim Sorvig's copy of The Equations. Fascinating stunt:
introduces the concepts of what several parts of equations are:
derivative, integral, differential equation, ...
The did this to dispel the idea that equations reduce the readership
of books. So its sorta how to read equations: the change in this
thingy plus the exponent of that thingy, summed over this range is
really the energy of the system .. sort of thing.
Innovative book design as well, very small book, very elegantly put
together.
I sent off for the relativity book so by friday we can browse them both.
-- Owen
On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Carl Tollander wrote:
>> I was fortunately (hoo boy!) wrong, this is different and may be much
>> related to my questions about observers, but I came away very
>> motivated
>> by the clarity of the talk to peruse his books on quantum computing,
>> which were highly recommended by Those In The Know (you know who you
>> are) as being popular books that are highly non-pandering ( see
>> http://tinyurl.com/5q25so ). Anybody else motivated to make sense of
>> these and if so, which one?
>>
> He seems to have two books, "The equations: Icons of Knowledge" and
> "Very Special Relativity".
> But what about quantum computing? I see this sort of survey
> article
> he wrote with Doyne Farmer
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0708.2837 that gets into quantum computation
> about half way through.
>
> ..and the full list of arXiv articles here
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/grp_physics/1/au:+bais/0/1/0/all/0/1
>
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