This quarter we are reading The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson.

Students must attend eight of the planned ten sections to receive credit for the seminar.

Meeting time

Thursdays 4:30-6:20 via zoom (email Stuart if you need the link)

Relevant Links

• Robin Dunbar on Shakespeare
• Smarties test from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• The tech supremacy: Silicon Valley can no longer conceal its power by Niall Ferguson
• Romantic Partnerships and the Dispersion of Social Ties:A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook by Lars Backstrom and Jon Kleinberg
• Card trick solution
• RSA Encryption resources

• click here to download JFLAP
• click here to see a picture of our Turing Machine
• click here to download the JFLAP file (save as palindrome.jff)

Reading assignments