I’ve just completed “reading” (listening to) The Black Cloud, by astronomer Fred Hoyle. It has been refreshing to discover a book – science fiction at that – which I can enthusiastically recommend to almost any reader. Hoyle was a successful astronomer who turned to writing
Over this winter vacation, I’ve been intellectually focused on some background mathematics supporting my work in detection. One of my projects is reading through a rather introductory text on probability by Athanasios Papoulis (1965). I’ve found the opening sections of this book very philosophically relevant,
This Fall my reading has centered on David Harriman’s recently published “The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics”. I started off listening to the book on Audible, then realized that there was too much detail I was missing, so I went ahead and purchased a hard