Phil 105: Science and Philosophy - Interesting Stuff
- What
is philosophy?
- Biographies
of mathematicians
- Platonic Realms
– all things mathematical, including a very useful encyclopedia to concepts
such as infinity!
- September 2003's Scientific American has a discussion of time,
with some issues close to the interests of the course – you can see it online
through the library if you don't want to go there or buy a copy!
- Science U – a nice free
link with helpful, accessible discussions of astronomy, geometry and more.
- The Philosopher's
Magazine – discussions and accessible articles concerning all things
philosophical.
- An orrery – model
of the Copernican solar system from different perspectives
- NonEuclid –
a model of Poincaré's disk
- A 4-D maze game –
I haven't played it, but it looks interesting
- John Conway's game
of Life
- A discussion of the possible types of 3D topologies can be found
in "The Shape of Space", by Graham Collins in Scientific American,
July 2004, Vol. 291 Issue 1, p86-94.
- Notes
on the Fourth Dimension.
- Read Flatland.
- Adventures
in the 2D Torus, The Movie. (PG-13 for some violent content.)
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