[FRIAM] books by cheng and chang

Wed Nov 2 17:52:43 EDT 2022

On 11/2/22 9:43 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> Thanks, Glen.
>
> It would be nice if there were a public bibliographic reference url 
> that one could use to name a book that only conveyed the thing in 
> itself.  Goodreads was that once, then Amazon bought them.  Ditto for 
> video and audio recordings and other objects of public interest.

I admit to continuing to use Goodreads this way in spite of two 
problems... the Amazon affiliation/ownership of course, but also the too 
often spotty reviews...  I don't provide many nor particularly good 
reviews myself, so I've no room to complain really.

So I suppose I agree with your "public bibliographic reference url" 
point.   It seems as if Wikipedia is a good candidate but I haven't done 
the work to understand how new entries are made... are they always 
required to be made by a citizen of the community who is NOT affiliated 
with the book (publisher, author, etc)? I find a *lot* of the books I 
seek in Wikipedia and prefer them for reference when their 
book-description (and cross links to related works, author, etc) are 
particularly apt, but that is also spotty.   I use Goodreads mostly to 
follow what family/friends are reading and what *they* think of their reads.

The trend toward crowd-sourced public-use corpii being acquired by 
private interests (even public corporations are private interests) is 
disturbing (FB <-Mapillary, Amazon<-Goodreads)...   Twitter->BoringCo, etc)

>
> Eugenia Cheng has other books and a pile of youtube videos.  
> Interestingly, her primary institutional affiliation is the Art 
> Institute of Chicago, where as resident scientist she teaches math to 
> art students.  She has a public reading for kids scheduled in Jersey 
> City this month.  Her definition of category theory is "the 
> mathematics of mathematics" which she expands as "the logical study of 
> the logical study of logical things."
>
> Hasok Chang has a third book, Is Water H2O, which Amazon fails to 
> index on his amazon author page, though it is on amazon at a 
> blistering price in every available format.  I found a pdf on the 
> internets.  It's details the history of working out the chemical 
> identity of water. Two themes are that 1) the consensus answers to 
> scientific questions often change in anticipation of the arrival of 
> corroboration, 2) there are often multiple acceptable answers to 
> scientific questions.  These are possibly consequences of being a 
> realisitic realist.

Interesting set of recursions...  we CS types tend to love our 
arbitrary-depth recursion, but the special cases like double-negatives, 
and Rummy's unkown unknowns and now Chang's logical logicologoy of 
logics and realistic realists are ... *special*?  While some may prefer 
"turtles all the way down" sometimes just a few turtles deep suffices?

- Steve

PS... couldn't help hearing/reading "Cheech&Chong" on the first reading 
of this thread.

>
> -- rec --
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:57 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     There. I fixed that for you. 8^D
>
>     On 11/1/22 19:36, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>     > Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he mentioned
>     some books of interest, and while looking for them I discovered
>     yet another book.
>     >
>
>     https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-joy-of-abstraction-an-exploration-of-math-category-theory-and-life-eugenia-cheng/18557720?ean=9781108477222
>
>     > Exploration-Category-Theory/dp/1108477224>
>     > Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math,
>     Category Theory, and Life, published October 2022.
>     >
>     > A presentation of category theory that keeps the underlying
>     algebra basic.
>     >
>
>     https://bookshop.org/p/books/inventing-temperature-measurement-and-scientific-progress-hasok-chang/9513488?ean=9780195337389
>
>     > Hasok Chang, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific
>     Progress
>     >
>     > An itemized history of temperature and all the wrong turns taken
>     along the way, more detail than even the author cares to read
>     again.  Poetic justice to examine the operation of the
>     pragmatist's ratchet and pawl over the centuries as it rescues
>     workable definitions of temperature from thermal confusion.
>     >
>
>     https://bookshop.org/p/books/realism-for-realistic-people-a-new-pragmatist-philosophy-of-science-hasok-chang/18368583?ean=9781108470384
>
>     > Hasok Chang, Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist
>     Philosophy of Science, available on kindle on November 30, 2022.
>     >
>     > -- rec --
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