These pdf files are the most up-to-date version of the matter of this site. A pdf file of the complete site is quite large, so I have broken it up into four parts: All these documents are partly to be available to me when I get old (as if I weren’t already!), partly with the idea that if I can’t explain it (even if only to myself), I haven’t really understood it.
- chapters 1-6, the past
- chapters 7-8, biochemistry and energy
- chapters 9-11, physiology, development and neuroscience
- End material, timeline and bibliography
Other miscellaneous stuff, overview, some of it rather math-heavy:
- Modern physics — Overview
- Special and General Relativity, Quantum mechanics and thermodynamic potentials are now included in the above “Modern physics” overview
- The story of h-bar, Planck’s constant
- Hairier treatment of QM, based on Ballentine’s book.
- Spin summary
- Symmetries, groups and quantum field theory — Notes
- An attempt to deal with QFT in words based on the equations — QFT in words
- Entropy (english, french)
- Bayesian reasoning
And on quite another subject (why not?)
- Notes sur la révolution française; en français (only in French)
