changeset 115:dc6a0ea8e2dd

annotated "for fun" section.
author rlm
date Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:47:39 -0400
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     1.1 --- a/org/sussman-reading-list.org	Tue Jun 03 13:36:48 2014 -0400
     1.2 +++ b/org/sussman-reading-list.org	Tue Jun 03 13:47:39 2014 -0400
     1.3 @@ -7,31 +7,21 @@
     1.4  #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
     1.5  #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both
     1.6  
     1.7 +* TODO something about the point of this
     1.8 +
     1.9  If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file
    1.10  that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the
    1.11  page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]).
    1.12  
    1.13  # NEEDS WORK
    1.14  
    1.15 -* For fun
    1.16 -  - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
    1.17 -    - a reasonable philisopher
    1.18 -  - was einstein right? (clifford will)
    1.19 -
    1.20 -  - Stranger in a strange land 
    1.21 -
    1.22 -  - Hackers, by Steven Levy
    1.23 -    - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
    1.24 -      example. 
    1.25 -    - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
    1.26 -
    1.27  * Some /Real/ Highschool Reading
    1.28  
    1.29 -- Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
    1.30 -  - readable
    1.31 -  - not too heavy
    1.32 -  - you can just go through it...
    1.33 -  - minimal dependencies
    1.34 +  - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
    1.35 +    - readable
    1.36 +    - not too heavy
    1.37 +    - you can just go through it...
    1.38 +    - minimal dependencies
    1.39  
    1.40    - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity
    1.41      - can be read by H.S. student
    1.42 @@ -259,3 +249,21 @@
    1.43      - Is a completely new way to program computers.
    1.44      - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]].
    1.45  
    1.46 +* For Fun
    1.47 +  - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archemdedes' Point]], by Huw Price
    1.48 +    - ISBN: 0195117980
    1.49 +    - A reasonable philisopher!
    1.50 +
    1.51 +  - [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by
    1.52 +    Clifford M. Will
    1.53 +    - ISBN: 0465090869
    1.54 +
    1.55 +  - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein
    1.56 +    - ISBN: 0441790348
    1.57 +
    1.58 +  - [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy
    1.59 +    - ISBN: 1449388396
    1.60 +    - Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
    1.61 +      example.
    1.62 +    - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures
    1.63 +      what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.