What's the Big Idea?

Before I get too scattered, let me rein in and make a list of main topics for this blog (hey, Blogger! Topic labels? I suppose I could modify the template myself....). These are the topics I'm trying to teach myself, with varying degrees of success:

Isotropy, Symmetry, and Conservation

Phase Transitions, Scaling, and Power-law Distributions

Trajectories in Many-Body Systems I: Feynman diagrams and quasiparticles

Trajectories in Many-Body Systems II: Weiner Measure, Black-Scholes theory, and Stochastic Processes

Partial Orders, Random Graphs, and Groupoids

Knot Theory and Model Theory

It is possible this list is too ambitious for a weekend hobby.

- posted by Scott @ 8:55 PM