Models of Reality

The Illustrative Guide

A book that takes you from data to science through models by visualizations.

Welcome

“Life is difficult.” — M. Scott Peck’s, The Road Less Traveled

This will be a long journey… it’s a hell of a time.

“Ludwig Boltzman, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously.” — Opening lines of ‘States of Matter’, by D.L. Goodstein.