[November 14 + 21] Swarms and statistics
Section outline
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No meeting on Thursday!
Text 9: James Clerk Maxwell, “Molecules,” Nature (1873): 437-441. [online version]
Context 9: Swarms and statistics; causality and free will; analogy and the problem of identity (not people but things)
Assigned reading: Theodore M. Porter, "Buckle's laws and Maxwell's demon," The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 (1986), 194-208.
Presentation: Thint -