Ok, I'm in, the books look cool. Maybe we can discuss a bit on the list? Cheers, Günther
Carl Tollander wrote: > 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 > -- Günther Greindl Department of Philosophy of Science University of Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://www.complexitystudies.org/ Thesis: http://www.complexitystudies.org/proposal/ ============================================================ 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
