Re: [FRIAM] A Very Short Introduction to Everything

[Robert Holmes]

Synchronicity! I just read your post after getting back from Borders where
Martha had just bought VSIs to Game Theory (which I'll probably steal) and
Intelligence.
Robert

P.S. I highly recommend the VSI to the Philosophy of Science. Should be
compulsory reading for anyone who dares to use the word simulation!

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 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



 
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Re: [FRIAM] A Very Short Introduction to Everything

[Phil Henshaw]

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 he’d not been blinkered by
expectations, he’d have been able to predict Hubble’s 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  

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 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
 
 
 
 
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 Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
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