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	07/03 DJ is currently reading: The Essence of Chaos (The Jessie and John Danz Lecture Series) by Edward N. Lorenz bookshelves: currently-reading, popular-physics	my rating:
	DJ said: "another book I'm hoping will offer some good insights into a summer project on quantum chaos " add a comment
	06/29 DJ is currently reading: Watership Down: A Novel (Paperback) by Richard Adams bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction	my rating:
	DJ said: "I never expected a book on bunnies could be so utterly grim and terrifying. " add a comment
	06/29 DJ is currently reading: An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume 1 (Hardcover) by William Feller bookshelves: currently-reading, math	my rating:
	DJ said: "Greatly enjoyed my intro probability class but interested in plugging holes and exploring further. Heard this was the probability monogram and have high expectations. " add a comment

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July 04
	DJ marked as to-read: Algorithmic Information Theory (Hardcover) by Gregory. J. Chaitin bookshelves: math, to-read	my rating:
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	DJ marked as to-read: Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness (Series of Books in the Mathematical Sciences) by M.R. Garey bookshelves: computer-science, to-read	my rating:
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	DJ marked as to-read: Ergodic theory and information (Unknown Binding) by Patrick Billingsley bookshelves: math, to-read	my rating:
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	DJ marked as to-read: From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences (Paperback) by Ilya Prigogine bookshelves: chaos, to-read	my rating:
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	DJ marked as to-read: Order out of chaos: Man's new dialogue with nature (Paperback) by Ilya Prigogine bookshelves: chaos, to-read	my rating:
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	DJ marked as to-read: Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics (Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy) by John S. Bell bookshelves: philosophy, physics, to-read	my rating:
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	DJ marked as to-read: Economy as an Evolving Complex System (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings) by Philip Anderson bookshelves: math, to-read	my rating:
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	DJ marked as to-read: Foundations of the Theory of Probability (AMS Chelsea Publishing) by A.N. Kolmogorov bookshelves: math, to-read	my rating:
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	DJ gave to: Chance and Chaos (Penguin Science) by David Ruelle bookshelves: popular-physics	my rating:
	read in July, 2009 DJ said: "This book goes down like a high school cafeteria salad bar - plenty of variety but overwhelmingly mediocre. It seems as though Ruelle simply sat down one Saturday and thought, "Hey, I think I'll write a book" and proceeded to reg...more " add a comment
July 03
	DJ is currently reading: The Essence of Chaos (The Jessie and John Danz Lecture Series) by Edward N. Lorenz bookshelves: currently-reading, popular-physics	my rating:
	DJ said: "another book I'm hoping will offer some good insights into a summer project on quantum chaos " add a comment

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