On 11/2/22 9:43 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Thanks, Glen.
It would be nice if there were a public bibliographic reference url
that one could use to name a book that only conveyed the thing in
itself. Goodreads was that once, then Amazon bought them. Ditto for
video and audio recordings and other objects of public interest.
I admit to continuing to use Goodreads this way in spite of two
problems... the Amazon affiliation/ownership of course, but also the too
often spotty reviews... I don't provide many nor particularly good
reviews myself, so I've no room to complain really.
So I suppose I agree with your "public bibliographic reference url"
point. It seems as if Wikipedia is a good candidate but I haven't done
the work to understand how new entries are made... are they always
required to be made by a citizen of the community who is NOT affiliated
with the book (publisher, author, etc)? I find a *lot* of the books I
seek in Wikipedia and prefer them for reference when their
book-description (and cross links to related works, author, etc) are
particularly apt, but that is also spotty. I use Goodreads mostly to
follow what family/friends are reading and what *they* think of their reads.
The trend toward crowd-sourced public-use corpii being acquired by
private interests (even public corporations are private interests) is
disturbing (FB <-Mapillary, Amazon<-Goodreads)... Twitter->BoringCo, etc)
Eugenia Cheng has other books and a pile of youtube videos.
Interestingly, her primary institutional affiliation is the Art
Institute of Chicago, where as resident scientist she teaches math to
art students. She has a public reading for kids scheduled in Jersey
City this month. Her definition of category theory is "the
mathematics of mathematics" which she expands as "the logical study of
the logical study of logical things."
Hasok Chang has a third book, Is Water H2O, which Amazon fails to
index on his amazon author page, though it is on amazon at a
blistering price in every available format. I found a pdf on the
internets. It's details the history of working out the chemical
identity of water. Two themes are that 1) the consensus answers to
scientific questions often change in anticipation of the arrival of
corroboration, 2) there are often multiple acceptable answers to
scientific questions. These are possibly consequences of being a
realisitic realist.
Interesting set of recursions... we CS types tend to love our
arbitrary-depth recursion, but the special cases like double-negatives,
and Rummy's unkown unknowns and now Chang's logical logicologoy of
logics and realistic realists are ... *special*? While some may prefer
"turtles all the way down" sometimes just a few turtles deep suffices?
- Steve
PS... couldn't help hearing/reading "Cheech&Chong" on the first reading
of this thread.
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On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:57 AM glen <[email protected]> wrote:
There. I fixed that for you. 8^D
On 11/1/22 19:36, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he mentioned
some books of interest, and while looking for them I discovered
yet another book.
>
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-joy-of-abstraction-an-exploration-of-math-category-theory-and-life-eugenia-cheng/18557720?ean=9781108477222
> Exploration-Category-Theory/dp/1108477224>
> Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math,
Category Theory, and Life, published October 2022.
>
> A presentation of category theory that keeps the underlying
algebra basic.
>
https://bookshop.org/p/books/inventing-temperature-measurement-and-scientific-progress-hasok-chang/9513488?ean=9780195337389
> Hasok Chang, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific
Progress
>
> An itemized history of temperature and all the wrong turns taken
along the way, more detail than even the author cares to read
again. Poetic justice to examine the operation of the
pragmatist's ratchet and pawl over the centuries as it rescues
workable definitions of temperature from thermal confusion.
>
https://bookshop.org/p/books/realism-for-realistic-people-a-new-pragmatist-philosophy-of-science-hasok-chang/18368583?ean=9781108470384
> Hasok Chang, Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist
Philosophy of Science, available on kindle on November 30, 2022.
>
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