# HG changeset patch # User rlm # Date 1401823818 14400 # Node ID 10d7a41a896e1c1d0387876b2acfe236fe7326c1 # Parent dcdbca96aef98416d747d54b197fbe07dee4516b spellcheck. diff -r dcdbca96aef9 -r 10d7a41a896e org/sussman-reading-list.org --- a/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 15:26:13 2014 -0400 +++ b/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 15:30:18 2014 -0400 @@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ #+author: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre) #+email: rlm@mit.edu #+description: Professor Sussman's reading recommendations -#+keywords: sussman physics computer science reading list MIT +#+keywords: Sussman physics computer science reading list MIT #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both -Serving as a TA for Professor Sussman will get you three things: gread -advice, spectacular reading recommendataions, and lots of high quality +Serving as a TA for Professor Sussman will get you three things: great +advice, spectacular reading recommendations, and lots of high quality tea. I can't share the advice or the tea, but I can compile a reading list. Some of the materials on this represent research paths that lead -to unexplored terrority. Some are textbooks that express concepts so +to unexplored territory. Some are textbooks that express concepts so clearly they will change your life and make you weep for joy. I hope that you will get something interesting out of this reading list, wherever you are in life -- there's stuff I wish I knew about in @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ - [[http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/a-survey-of-modern-algebra][A Survey of Modern Algebra]], by Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders MacLane - ISBN: 9781568814544 - - Goes all the wau to Galois Theory! + - Goes all the way to Galois Theory! - Clear! - [[http://usf.usfca.edu/vca//][Visual Complex Analysis]], Needham @@ -123,10 +123,10 @@ - I'm very interested in hi-fi. * Marvin Minsky - Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a - student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim" + Minsky really made me as a person. He was my adviser when I was a + student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetism" to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the - right amount of negligence and delagaion to create an environment + right amount of negligence and delegation to create an environment where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry, @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112 - Really good for "Math types." - Uses geometry for proving things. - - People unwisely consisdered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact, + - People unwisely considered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact, it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural Nets. @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ These are students where I played a large role in their education. Many of them represent compelling research directions - that desperatly need to be extented by the next generation of + that desperately need to be extended by the next generation of researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new, go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it @@ -177,9 +177,9 @@ - Two papers: - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992. - - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Paramater Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995. + - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Parameter Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995. - No one put enough effort into seeing if it really worked. - - Seems to allow for almost unlimited percision in measurement. + - Seems to allow for almost unlimited precision in measurement. - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple experiment. @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ - Is a completely new way to program computers. - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]]. -* Some /Real/ Highschool Reading +* Some /Real/ High school Reading - [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/cosmology-relativity-and-gravitation/first-course-general-relativity][A First Course in General Relativity]], by Bernard F Schultz - ISBN: 9780521277037 @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]], by [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/][Marvin Minsky]] - A trove of wonderful ideas! - - [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=L3QCSD][Quantum Computing since Democratus]], by [[http://www.scottaaronson.com/][Scott Aaronson]] + - [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=L3QCSD][Quantum Computing since Democritus]], by [[http://www.scottaaronson.com/][Scott Aaronson]] - Everything you might want to know about computing with QM, with a philosophical outlook. @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ * Selected works by Sussman - - [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM (Structure and Interpreation of Classical Mechanics)]] This is + - [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics)]] This is the textbook of [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/][6.946]], a class in Classical Mechanics that Sussman generally teaches in the Fall. - ISBN: 9780262194556 @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ - [[http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/][R5RS (Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme)]] Spec. for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29][scheme]] computer language. Sussman is very proud of - the short length of this document comparted to the specifications + the short length of this document compared to the specifications for most other computer languages. It's based on the [[http://www.masswerk.at/algol60/report.htm][Revised Report on the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60]] @@ -310,9 +310,9 @@ differential geometry in the classic SIC[M/P] style. * For Fun - - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archemdedes' Point]], by Huw Price + - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point]], by Huw Price - ISBN: 0195117980 - - A reasonable philisopher! + - A reasonable philosopher! - [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by Clifford M. Will