I mean to say whose popular sci-books do you like more Stephen Hawking's or Roger Penrose 's ?
I like Penrose as he doesn't shy from using mathematics. So he is likely to present a better picture to the general public. And that may even ignite their interest in mathematics.
Also he...
Can you suggest a good book which deals on current as well as important old philosophical interpretations of probability theory? It would be good if it also touches on quantum mechanics probability.
note - please move it to philosophy thread if this should belong there and not here.
Ya. you are right about the equations part.
But I found the book a bit weird because the author maintains that some probabilities are not numerically measurable.
For ex - according to the author it doesn't make sense to talk about the probability numerically when we say "probably it will...
Has anyone read this book ?
Is it considered relevant these days ?
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=lhuVQDlP_zQC&lpg=PP1&dq=treatise%20on%20probability&pg=PR7#v=onepage&q&f=false
it was written in 1921. 10 years before Kolmogorov's .
I guess, there aren't book discussions of philosophy books in science book discussion forum .
So which is the apt forum where one can ask experts about their views on a book on philosophy?
Also another point in general : how to know whether a thread exists for a book discussion , is there...
I am looking for something on the lines of this - http://www.tineye.com/ .
i.e a site where one uploads an image and it gives back similar images from other websites.
(note - I am not asking for face recognition or similar thing , that I guess would be a big demand . I just wanted to find...
I am not planning on doing the problems as yet of Rudin. i was looking for an introduction -something of a first look on the subject. and I guess as you people mentioned the course is excellent for such a purpose.
cool.
Because I was in search of real analysis lectures since many days. I hope they keep it on youtube for a few more months.
Any idea what the lecturer wants as prerequisites for the course? Cause I am not at rudin level yet.
Ya video is kinda blurry. But you say those are better than Berkeley's ? Can you give links to Berkeley lectures , if there are any on real analysis?
I am from India so don't know much about HarveyMudd college.I searched and saw that it is ranked 18 on Liberal-arts college lists . How are...
How are these videos on real analysis ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqEyWLGvvdw&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SP04BA7A9EB907EDAF
These are from HarveyMudd College.
In comparison to MIT OCW how would you rate these?
How are these lectures on real analysis?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqEyWLGvvdw&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SP04BA7A9EB907EDAF
does it compare to any of the MIT lectures ?
how would you rate it on a scale of 1 to 10 ? 1 being the lowest