Readings

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Day 1

• The Purpose and Ubiquity of Turnover by Peter W. Reddien (2026)

• The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einsten and Léopold Infeld (1938)

• On proof and progress in mathematics by William Thurston (1994)

• The First 50 Million Prime Numbers by Dan Zaiger (1975)

• The Eye of Reason: Darwin`s Development during the Beagle Voyage by Howard E. Gruber and Valmai Gruber (1962)

Day 3

• Mouvement Brownien et Réalité Moléculaire by Jean Perrin (1909)

• Parameter Space Compression Underlies Emergent Theories and Predictive Models by Benjamin Machta, Ricky Chachra, Mark Transtrum, and James Sethna (2013) Explains another perspective on why truncating dynamical update rules is reasonably approximated by a two-term diffusion equation.

• The Magic of the Collective by Kai Simons (2013) A discussion of the subtle task of creating good scientific culture.

Day 5

• Polymer physics of intracellular phase transitions by Clifford Brangwynne, Peter Tompa, Rohit Pappu (2015)

• Physical principles underlying the transduction of bilayer deformation forces during mechanosensitive channel gating by Eduardo Perozo, Anna Kloda, D. Marien Cortes, Boris Martinac (2002)

Useful links

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