I came here to suggest the same book which I think of as “that green one that’s really great”.
One thing I liked about it was the way that it makes background temperature into a super important concept that can drive intuitions that are more “trigonometric/geometric” and amenable to visualization… with random waves always existing as a background relative to “the waves that have energy pumped into them in order to transmit a signal that is visible as a signal against this background of chaos”.
“Signal / noise ratio” is a useful phrase. Being able to see this concept in a perfectly quiet swimming pool (where the first disturbance that generates waves produces “lonely waves” from which an observer can reconstruct almost exactly where the first splash must have occurred) is a deeper thing, that I got from this book.
I came here to suggest the same book which I think of as “that green one that’s really great”.
One thing I liked about it was the way that it makes background temperature into a super important concept that can drive intuitions that are more “trigonometric/geometric” and amenable to visualization… with random waves always existing as a background relative to “the waves that have energy pumped into them in order to transmit a signal that is visible as a signal against this background of chaos”.
“Signal / noise ratio” is a useful phrase. Being able to see this concept in a perfectly quiet swimming pool (where the first disturbance that generates waves produces “lonely waves” from which an observer can reconstruct almost exactly where the first splash must have occurred) is a deeper thing, that I got from this book.