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An Introduction to Transfer Entropy
Information Flow in Complex Systems
This book considers a relatively new metric in complex systems, transfer entropy, derived from a series of measurements, usually a time series. After a qualitative introduction and a chapter that explains the key ideas from statistics required to understand the text, the authors then present information theory and transfer entropy in depth. A key f...
Sean Carroll
2021-07-10T18:18:44.000ZSpacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity provides a lucid and thoroughly modern introduction to general relativity. With an accessible and lively writing style, it introduces modern techniques to what can often be a formal and intimidating subject. Readers are led from the physics of flat spacetime (special relativity), through...
Sean Carroll
2021-04-26T22:46:56.000Z
Newton and the Counterfeiter
The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
In 1695, Isaac Newton—already renowned as the greatest mind of his age—made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budd...
Sean Carroll
2021-03-23T00:08:42.000ZTo what extent are the subjects of our thoughts and talk real? This is the question of realism. In this book, Justin Clarke-Doane explores arguments for and against moral realism and mathematical realism, how they interact, and what they can tell us about areas of philosophical interest more generally. He argues that, contrary to widespread belief,...
Sean Carroll
2021-03-08T15:59:40.000Z
Models of the Mind
How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For over a century, a diverse array of researchers have been trying to find a language that can be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate – and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The l...

The WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Harvard University's Joseph Henrich, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, delivers a bold, epic investigation into the development of the Western mind, global psychological diversity, and its impact on the worldPerhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you're...
Sean Carroll
2020-12-15T16:38:20.000ZWhat do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that many researchers believe is the key to predicting – and ultimately solving—everything from terrorist attacks and pandemic viruses right down to rush hour traffic congestion.Complexity is considered by many to be the ...
Sean Carroll
2020-08-17T13:48:55.000ZAuthored by an acclaimed teacher of quantum physics and philosophy, this textbook pays special attention to the aspects that many courses sweep under the carpet. Traditional courses in quantum mechanics teach students how to use the quantum formalism to make calculations. But even the best students - indeed, especially the best students - emerge ra...
Sean Carroll
2019-11-03T17:32:40.000ZThe Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the "many worlds" approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken literally as a theory of the world, it seems to make crazy claims: particles are in two pla...
Sean Carroll
2019-11-03T17:32:40.000Z
Philosophy of Physics
Space and Time (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy Book 5)
This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory. Tim Maudlin's broad historical overview examines Aristotelian and Newtonian accounts of space and time, and tr...
Sean Carroll
2019-11-03T17:32:40.000ZQuantum Processes Systems, and Information by Benjamin Schumacher
Decoherence and the Quantum-to-Classical Transition by Maximilian A. Schlosshauer
Quantum Mechanics and Experience by David Z Albert