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Wind, Sand And Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez, John Steinbeck
p. 80 ethical paradox, tragic miracle of consciousness
Coast-pilot charts
Made it to page 154 and then had to return the book to the library on 04/28/2025...never made it to Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts

God's Equation - Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe, Amir D. Aczel
Finished on 03/27/2025
Euclid’s fifth postulate
Non-Euclidean geometry p.57
Parallel lines in a non flat space
1905, special theory of relativity and the equation E=mc^2. p.21 & p.62
Red shift, higher frequency coming at and lower frequency going away
c^2=a^2+b^2+2ab Rehmain

Neutrinos, they are very small
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass
Like dust maids down a drafty hall
- John Updike, 1960
p.181

A Divine Language, Alec Wilkinson
Finished on 03/11/2025
Different types of algebra p.13, Proofs p.60, Primes p.90, Platonism p.115
I found an interesting article, We've been wrong about math for 2300 years by David Bessis, that I thought pertained to some of the content of A Divine Language.

The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
Finished on 02/24/2025.

The Joy of X, Steven Strogatz
Finished on 02/12/2025...dry, skimmed through at the end

Zero, Charles Seife
Finished on 02/01/2025
Notes

The Lost City of Z, David Grann
Roosevelt had a nice boat ride, NGS

Skeletons On The Zahara, Dean KingKing🐪
Communal sharing, Theft resulting in negotiation and bartering for preservation of relationships

Alive, The Story of the Andes Survivors, Piers Paul Read🛩️
Odyssey Justification Body of Christ, he gave his life so that we may survive

The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston🐍
Leishmaniasis, Fer-de-Lance

Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson
Fraud - book of lies

Endurance, Alfred Lansing⚓️

Foundation, Asimov

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
Dramatic moment - Paul using his childern's vision to kill Scytale

Dune, Frank Herbert
Heisenberg reference, take off
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Iliad Homer, Stanley Lombardo

Odyssey Homer, Stanley Lombardo

Mythology, Edith Hamilton

A Mind for Numbers, Barbara Oakley

Liquid Rules, Mark Miodownik
Marangoni effect

Python for Microcontrollers, Donald Norris
The Basics of How GPS Functions p. 178