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DrKiki, can you ask the author about the book on entropy mentioned in the acknowledgements? Will it ever get written? Might be an interesting "sequel".
The last chapter is reminding me of this, the best textbook opening I ever read:
"Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in ...
Daniel, I'm sorry to hear that! I'm really enjoying the book, particularly in contrast to "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" by Bernstein. What Bernstein clouds, Mlodinow makes clear. Best book on this topic since my beloved 6.041 te...
Thomas, I'm tempted to say that you were just being a little left-brained while the patrons in that restaurant were being a little hare-brained. I'd say you're looking in vain for a pattern in the uneducated commentary of those patrons; you just h...