A Very Short Introduction to Everything

[Owen Densmore]

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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[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 <[hidden email]> 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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[Phil Henshaw-2]

>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  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] 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
>
>
>
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> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
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