Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, March 12, 2003

[Item Permalink] Essay on Topology -- Comment()
Sam Ruby nudges us gently with his new essay, Topology: "The essay explores, in a rather whimsical way, the fundamental message exchange patterns that make up web like interactions." [Matt Croydon::postneo]


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Blogs and academics: "A heterogeneous collection of links to pages relating to blogs in academia. Many links I've never seen previously, along with a few old-time favorites of mine." [Seb's Open Research]


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The Doughnut Universe: "New scientific data is apparently indicating that the universe might finite and shaped like a doughnut, says a New York Times article. [...] And topologists would argue that finite spaces are more simple and easy to create than infinite spaces, so they're more likely shapes for the universe." [Ming the Mechanic]