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100 Notable Books of 2015 - The New York Times
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Notable Children’s Books of 2015 - The New York Times
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Voted for "Mathematics Without Apologies" in the Opening Round of the 2015 #GoodreadsChoice Awards https:/
I Voted for "Why Information Grows" by @cesifoti in the Opening Round of the 2015 #GoodreadsChoice Awards https:/
Voted for "A Fatal Family Secret" in the Opening Round of the 2015 #GoodreadsChoice Awards https:/
I'm really impressed at the number of books that have moved through @LFL8424 in just a few weeks! https:/
I'm now #57 on @BookCrossing - Leader Board for Books Registered http:/
I'm currently #94 on the @BookCrossing Leader Board for # of Books Registered in last week http:/
How is it that @HomeDepot hasn't partnered up with @LtlFreeLibrary to help customers build their own libraries? #DIY #community #books
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.@small_societies Do you happen to have a bibliography of books in the vein of Judith Rodin's Resilience Dividend? http:/
While researching the links between mnemonics and shorthand, I just came across "A complete guide to the improvement of the memory or the science of memory simplified: with practical applications to languages, history, geography, music, prose, poetry, shorthand, etc." written by James Henry Bacon and published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London. https:/
Isaac Pitman, who published the book, was also the inventor of Pitman shorthand which was introduced in 1837 and is structurally similar to the Major System.
The book seems to be based on Bacon's prior work "The Science of Memory Simplified and Explained: Or, A Rational System for Improving the Memory, Etc" written in 1861.
Josh, if you feel it appropriate, you can also add the book above to http:/
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Response to Quora Question: Are there any popular science books on information theory?
There are a small handful that may meet your requirements:
Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe: What We Know and What We Do Not Know by Arieh Ben-Naim
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An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise by John R. Pierce
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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick
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Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes by Charles Seife
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Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
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Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd
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The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver
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The Ben-Naim book is coming out at the end of May, and is probably the best popular science book on the topic that you're likely to find (I've read most of an early draft). Following that it's still very hard to beat Pierce's presentation all these years later. Seife wasn't too bad while Gleick comes at things from the most broad viewpoint and covers more history than anything else. Lloyd's book mentions it tangentially. Mitchell's book is excellent, and though it only has one chapter on information theory, some of the other areas it covers are tangential to the subject and very interesting in their own right.
Finally, after Ben-Naim and Robinson, I'd really recommend the UofI Press edition of Shannon/Weaver. Though you can get a copy of Shannon's paper for free online, the introduction by Warren Weaver is really excellent (and similar to Robinson's presentation) and then one can delve into a bit of Shannon's actual math, which isn't too difficult and should be able to be followed by most reasonable high school students. Shannon's text is the only one I've listed that has any mathematical equations, but the Weaver half of the book is certainly a popular science presentation without any math.
I'll turn this question around to suggest that instead of taking notes from your math/physics textbooks, that you're FAR better off PUTTING notes INTO them! Those margins are meant for writing down the parts of problems and examples that the author implicitly leaves out.
One typically wouldn't take notes from a Spanish, French, or Latin textbook would they? Like most languages, mathematics should be read and written to practice it (and maybe even spoken).
Knowing math or physics is best demonstrated by actually doing problems - and the majority of the time, this is what is going to be on the test too, so just pick up a pencil or pen and start working out the answers.
These subjects aren't like history, philosophy, or psychology with multiple choice or essay type questions that might benefit from note-taking, so just jump right in. Give the book a short read and start plugging away at problems.
If you have problems getting started, take a look at some of the examples provided by the author (or in other books), cover up the answer, and try to recreate the solution.
Drafting off of the Quora question "Why aren't math textbooks more straightforward?" (https:/