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Theory Homepage Book of the Semester
At the beginning of the semester we select a book to read during
the semester. Near the end of the semester, we discuss what we read.
    Current Book
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    Books Previously Discussed
  • Fall 2005: Exploring Complexity, An Introduction,
                         Gregoire Nicolis and Ilya Prigogine, W.H. Freeman ad Company, 1989
  • Winter 05: Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: a few might even be true,
                         Janna Levin, Anchor, 2003
  • Fall 2004: Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order,
                         Steven Strogatz, Theia, 2003
  • Winter 04: Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: a few might even be true,
                         Robert Ehrlich, Princeton University Press,2001
  • Fall 2003: Three roads to Quantum Gravity,
                         Lee Smolin, Basic Books,2002
  • Winter 03: In search of the ultimate building blocks,
                         Gerard 't Hooft, Cambridge,1997
  • Fall 2002: The runaway universe: The race to find the future of the cosmos
                         Donald Goldsmith, Perseus Books, 2000
  • Winter 02: Are there really neutrinos: an evidential history,
                         Allan Franklin, Perseus  2000
  • Fall 2001: The end of time: The next revolution in physics
                         Julian Barbour, Oxford UP, 2001
  • Winter 01: E = mc^2
                         David Bodanis, Berkley pub group, 2001
  • Fall 2000: Warmth disperses and time passes
                         Hans Christian.Von Bayer, The Modern Library,1999
  • Winter 00: The end of certainty,
                         Ilya Prigogine, Free Press, 1997
  • Fall 1999: The elegant universe
                         Brian Greene, Norton,1999
  • Winter 99: The Nature of Space and Time 
                       Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, Princeton UP 1996.
  • Fall 1998:Great Feuds in science: Ten of the liveliest disputes ever
                        Hal Hellman, Wiley, 1998.
  • Winter 98:More than one mystery: Explorations in quantum interference
                      Mark Silverman, Springer Verlag, 1995.
  • Fall 1997:Schrodinger machines: The quantum technology reshaping everyday life
                      Gerald Milburn, W. H. Freeman & Company, 1997.
  • Winter 97:Beyond Einstein: The cosmic quest for the theory of the universe
                      Michio Kaku, Double Day, 1995.
  • Fall 1996:Black holes and time warps: Einstein's outrageous legacy
                      Kip Thorne, W.W. Norton, 1994.
  • Winter 96:Chance and chaos
                      David Ruelle, Princeton Univ. Press, 1991.
  • Fall 1995:The rainbow and the worm: the physics of organisms
                      Mae-Wan HO, World Scientific, 1993.
  • Winter 95:Was Einstein right? Putting general relativity to the test
                      Clifford Will, Basic Books, 1993.
  • Fall 1994:The molecule and its double
                      Jean Jacques McGraw-Hill, 1993
  • Winter 94:The physics of chance
                      Charles Ruhla, Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Fall 1993:The physical basis of the direction of time
                      Hans-Dieter Zeh, Springer Verlag, 1992.
  • Winter 93:Catastrophe theory
                      Vladimir I. Arnold, Springer Verlag, 1992.
  • Fall 1992:The tiger and the shark, Empirical roots of wave particle dualism
                      Bruce R. Wheaton, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983.
  • Winter 92:The shaky game: Einstein realism and the quantum theory
                      Arthur Fine, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1986.
 
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