"The Predictioneer's Game" by Bruce Bruno de Mesquita is an overview of the authors use of game theory and statistical predictions of behavior (for profit, no less). He has a Ph.D. in political science, covers a few historical situations and bangs out some predictions. It is not heavy on the math, but would take a few afternoons to plow through.
Is cola being used in this article as a term for carbonated beverage with HFCS, caffeine and flavor, or actual cola like coca-cola? The last commenting doctor is from Ohio, where we call our bubbly "pop", and my 2L a day dew habit and I need to know!
Jurassic Park and Sphere I would recommend to anyone ten or up, though the thickness could be a bit intimidating. Timeline was another good one, though I'm guessing these are only science fiction by association with science. Raptor Red by Bakker is decent, but again, a story told through the eyes of a Utah-raptor is science fiction?
The author of the EMS article spends most of it talking about how brains function in understanding mathematics, a different form of Platonism. That mathematical truths would exist without something to understand them is akin to saying A implies B, and A, thus B if and only if something thought about it.
As far as the utility of if they are one, the other, or something totally different, if it's more akin to discovery, is there an easier way to survey the land?
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"The Predictioneer's Game" by Bruce Bruno de Mesquita is an overview of the authors use of game theory and statistical predictions of behavior (for profit, no less). He has a Ph.D. in political science, covers a few historical situations and bangs out some predictions. It is not heavy on the math, but would take a few afternoons to plow through.
Is cola being used in this article as a term for carbonated beverage with HFCS, caffeine and flavor, or actual cola like coca-cola? The last commenting doctor is from Ohio, where we call our bubbly "pop", and my 2L a day dew habit and I need to know!
Jurassic Park and Sphere I would recommend to anyone ten or up, though the thickness could be a bit intimidating. Timeline was another good one, though I'm guessing these are only science fiction by association with science. Raptor Red by Bakker is decent, but again, a story told through the eyes of a Utah-raptor is science fiction?
The author of the EMS article spends most of it talking about how brains function in understanding mathematics, a different form of Platonism. That mathematical truths would exist without something to understand them is akin to saying A implies B, and A, thus B if and only if something thought about it. As far as the utility of if they are one, the other, or something totally different, if it's more akin to discovery, is there an easier way to survey the land?