Cool. Mine won't be here til the weekend. I'm getting jazzed about (or at least amused by the idea of) non-abelian anyons. Hope they show up in the books someplace.
C. Owen Densmore wrote: > 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 >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 >> > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > ============================================================ 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
