Quantum Neighborhood Educational Project- Better understanding of the world and ourselves
In combination with Quantum Neighborhood Linux Fans the project encourage people to develope new linux and free open source software, including exensions of existing programs.
The project recommends the book Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg as a compelling account of why compassionate people don't respond compassionately to people. The project stresses that nonviolent communication is about a fuller awareness, not about specific words or actions with no change in awareness.
As a foundation for science, the project suggests starting with W.V. Quine's book Methods of Logic 4th edition.
For an optional book to understand the appeal of the axiom of choice (an axiom from Set Theory), the project recommends (with qualifications about errors in the book) Jaakko Hinitikka's book The Principles of Mathematics Revisited. For an elementary introduction to customary Set Theory we suggest Halmos' book Naive Set Theory.
For the actual mathematics background required for physics, the project suggests noting the websites of David Hestenes and the Geometric Algebra group at Cambridge University.
Additional projects include hopes for a local group working on Linux From Scratch, working on Quantum Field Theory as an elementary subject, making software to simply the solving and printing of homework problems, writing new textbooks, writing book reviews, and publishing zines. Another wider goal is to integrate mathematics, physics, logic, probability, and statistics into a single, well-defined, and well-supported whole. A stand alone component of that will be an automated validity checking routine for the corrollaries of traditional mathematical theorems.
Books the project hopes to read soon include:
In The Light of Logic by Solomon Feferman,
The Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook by Cynthia Cumfer and Kay Sohl,
Consistent Quantum Theory by Robert Griffiths,
How Is Quantum Field Theory Possible? by Sunny Y. Auyang,
Foundations Without Foundationalism: A Case for Second-Order Logic by Stewart Shapiro,
Radically Elementary Probability Theory by Edward Nelson, and
Probability Theory : The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes
Although not affiliated with the Quantum Neighborhood Educational Project, the Village Free School is opening, and since a free school is a school where the students have control of the curriculum, the project supports it as an efficient way for people to learn. Find out more and get involved if you want to.