Posted by
Douglas Roberts-2 on
Jun 15, 2007; 11:52pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Seminal-Papers-in-Complexity-tp524047p524048.html
Unfortunately, I've always had this visceral, "dictionary" autonomic
response to the word "seminal":
Main Entry: *sem?i?nal*
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Pronunciation: 'se-m&-n&l
Function: *adjective*
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin *seminalis,* from *semin-, semen* seed
-- more at SEMEN <
http://webster.com/dictionary/semen>
*1* *:* of, relating to, or consisting of seed or semen
*2* *:* containing or contributing the seeds of later development *:
*
Now, I realize that you probably were focussed on the second meaning of the
word, Owen, yet...
Perhaps had you used the word "significant", or "important", or, "not
complete garbage-class academic mental exhibititionist garbage"...
Alas, my train of thought is now irretrievably derailed.
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On 6/15/07, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
>
> Several of us have been attending the SFI Summer School this year.
> One thing that has stood out for me is that there are very few
> appropriate texts on the detailed, seminal ideas within complexity.
> Either the books are "popular" or they are technical/formal enough,
> but without broad view of complexity itself. Indeed, they may be
> *too* advanced in their speciality for the broad use complexity
> wishes to make.
>
> One example today was the intersection of computational theory and
> statistical mechanics given by Cris Moore:
> A Tale of Two Cultures: Phase Transitions in
> Physics and Computer Science
> Here are the slides:
http://www.santafe.edu/~moore/Oxford.pdf> You'd be unlikely to find a book bridging algorithms, computational
> complexity, and statistical mechanics.
>
> This leads me to believe that seminal papers are likely to be a good
> solution for bridging the various cultures, hopefully with some that
> *do* bridge gaps between specialties.
>
> Sooo -- gentle reader -- this brings me to a request: I'd like to
> start a collection of seminal papers who's goal is to bridge the gap
> between popular books and over-specialized texts, which are formal
> enough to be useful for multi-discipline complexity work. This may
> be daft, but I think not.
>
> As an example, I'd say Shannon's 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of
> Communication would be good.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
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