John Carlos Baez Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
Helge KraghJohn Carlos Baez@divbyzero @sk8asd123 I like the section on vortex theories in Helge Kragh's "Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology". https://t.co/Kh9VQD7ikD
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Elements of Information Theory
Thomas M. CoverJohn Carlos Baez@machina_animus The Wikipedia articles I linked to make a good start. Also try Cover and Thomas' "Elements of Information Theory", Li and Vitanyi's "An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications" and this paper: https://t.co/HVNZqGbahk
Hardcover, 2006
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Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Abraham PaisJohn Carlos Baez@JasonHise64 @BartoszMilewski @StartsWithABang Besides the open-access link I just gave, the best place to read about this - certainly more entertaining! - is Abraham Pais' biography of Einstein called "Subtle is the Lord". It goes through all his attempts at unified field theories. (2/2) https://t.co/RHcX4sKfbb
Paperback, 2005
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An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications
Ming LiJohn Carlos Baez@machina_animus The Wikipedia articles I linked to make a good start. Also try Cover and Thomas' "Elements of Information Theory", Li and Vitanyi's "An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications" and this paper: https://t.co/HVNZqGbahk
Paperback, 2014
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de Rerum Natura: V
LucretiusJohn Carlos Baez@GerardWesty31 @sfera314 Yes, but I'm more interested in how the "swerve" foreshadowed spontaneous symmetry breaking due to quantum mechanics. Most of this we get through Lucretius' poem "De Rerum Natura": https://t.co/e90M0gd9am https://t.co/ZuXf4LlDmO
Paperback, 2001
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Stone Spaces
P. T. JohnstoneJohn Carlos Baez@JadeMasterMath To the extent logic is about Boolean algebras, co-logic is about Stone spaces, since the category of Stone spaces is the opposite of the category of Boolean algebras. Check out Peter Johnstone's book "Stone spaces", or this: https://t.co/fMk4nXylQ7
Paperback, 2002
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The Spinorial Chessboard
Paolo BudinichJohn Carlos Baez@DiffGeometer1 @TheBlueWizard9 Here's my short introduction to spinors which explains the difference between Dirac spinors, Weyl spinors, Majorana spinors and Majorana-Weyl spinors: https://t.co/DYv1LBNsTq Trautman's book The Spinorial Chessboard is dense but packed with good info: https://t.co/mTlDR0MXTi
Paperback, 1988
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