Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun project, studying
a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the
Ising
model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics.
It's the only significant thing I've written that's not
online (too lazy).
Update July 2022:
PDF is here.
A few years ago my colleagues from the
Santa Fe Institute wrote a
preprint from that work,
Vortex Dynamics and
Entropic Coulomb Forces in Ising and Potts Antiferromagnets and Ice
Models. They were kind enough to list me as an author even though
I barely understand half the paper! I do have the pretty pictures,
though, plus a healthy appreciation of the complexity of
discrete systems.
I've never met one of the co-authors,
Cosma Shalizi. But
thanks to his having
a weblog I now
know more about him than the
other
guys.