>From the 1st intro, "How on earth did we get here?" "Even Albert Einstein found himself misled by preconceptions when, in 1917, he fudged his equations describing a mathematical model of the universe to make it static and unchanging, as he though it should be. When, 12 years later, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding, Einstein admitted his blunder if hed not been blinkered by expectations, hed have been able to predict Hubbles finding."
If that's the "intro".. then perhaps is the post script is.... -If only we were so lucky as to be as unassuming as Einstein... Phil Henshaw > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:22 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: [FRIAM] A Very Short Introduction to Everything > > A Very Short Introduction to Everything: > http://images.amazon.com/media/i3d/01/final_version_of_vsie.pdf > .. is an overview of the "A Very Short Introduction" series from > Oxford Press. > > Its an interesting series of books attempting to be brief, pocketable > and good surveys of whatever catches the author's fancy. > > I stumbled over this looking for stuff by one of my favorite authors, > Philip Ball, who has two titles in the series (The Elements & > Molecules). > > -- Owen > > > > ============================================================ > 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
