Bais talk and books?
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After 3 days of 100 degree heat in Omaha with no AC, I returned to the
blessed mild weather of Santa Fe Monday somewhat depleted, but felt I must go to the Sander Bais talk at SFI (http://www.santafe.edu/events/abstract/1373) since I thought it might have something to do with Topological Quantum Field Theory that I fancied that I almost understood via the Baez essays. 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? commas are for all, C. ============================================================ 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 |
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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 |
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M, thanks for the additional links. There was a lot of mention in his
talk of the non-abelian anyons, which I can almost get, but I think I need a gentler intro, so I'm likely gonna go with the Very Special Relativity book given that its more recent and also the rep of the EPR paper as one of the foundations of quantum computing, unless anybody comes up with a better idea. The books are relatively cheap; we can afford to be wrong. Lot of stuff in there that feels like quaternions, which we were familiar with in the old VR days for interpolating 3D graphics, though I may be mistaken. It also got me to go back and blow the dust off of the Tristan Needham book. C. 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 [hidden email] 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 |
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