Physicist at Large

Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Hofstadter, wrapping up

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For some reason I don't have it in me to laboriously type out every awesome quote in chapters 13-14. I'll just note two things: 1)...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Hofstadter Chp. 12, continued

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Hofstadter had a lot to say about the history of American education and attitudes towards teachers. Teaching has never been a high-status pr...

Hofstadter, Chapters 10-12

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Just a few scattered thoughts.  I don't have it in me to blog chapters 10-11 in detail, and I'm only part-way through chapter 12. ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Hofstadter, Chapters 7-9

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Just a few quick thoughts. Chapter 7: The only other thing that leaped out from it was that Teddy Roosevelt was, in many ways, a pretty in...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Final quote from Chapter 6 of Hofstadter

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On page 159, Hofstadter quotes a description of the 1824 election as a contest between: John Quincy Adams who can write And Andrew Jackso...
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Hofstadter: More of Chapter 6 and into Chapter 7

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Before starting with Chapter 7, I want to note something from Chapter 6: On pages 167-168, Hofstadter notes that Jefferson was able to invit...

Hofstadter, Chapter 6

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In Chapter 6, Hofstadter discusses the fall of the intellectual aristocrats from the Founding generation.  His take is that America ceased t...
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Alex Small
Pomona, CA, United States
I'm an associate professor of physics at Cal Poly Pomona. My research interests are mostly in biomedical applications of optics (especially theoretical limits to superresolution, and also light scattering calculations), with some side interests in percolation theory. I am using this blog to chronicle my responses to books that I'm reading, particularly books about higher education issues. It's a way to work out issues in my mind.
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