Lui Lam 
SCIMAT ANTHOLOGY: HISTOPHYSICS, ART, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE [EPUB ebook] 
Histophysics, Art, Philosophy, Science

Scimat (science of human) is a new multidiscipline proposed by Lui Lam in 2007. Scimat treats all studies on human as a unified enterprise. In terms of content, Scimat = Humanities + Social Science + Medical Science. Scimat advocates the use of humanities-science synthesis in understanding humans, and collaboration between the humanists and natural scientists. The ultimate aim of Scimat is to better humanity by bettering the humanities.

It has done so in the study of history, art, philosophy, and science, giving rise to some interesting and important results such as the appearance of a new discipline called Histophysics (physics of history), a new interpretation of art’s origin and nature, a better understanding of the differences between the philosophies of the West and East, and a rigorous definition of science.

Scimat Anthology collects 27 original articles in the humanities, published or unpublished from 2000 to 2024, with 26 by the founder of Scimat, ending with an in-depth analysis of Stephen Hawking and his legacy.

Readership ranges from high school students and laypeople to professors of all disciplines, who are interested in what the humanities and science are about, as well as new ideas in bridging them.

Contents:

• About the Author


• Preface


• About Chinese Names


• Scimat:
  
  
  
  • The Scimat Story (L Lam)
  
  
  • The Two Cultures and The Real World (L Lam)
  
  
  • Science Matters: A Unified Perspective (L Lam)
  
  
  • Bettering Humanity: The Scimat Approach (L Lam)
  
  
  • Humanities, Science, Scimat: A New General-Education Course (L Lam)
  
  
  • The Hu SS Course: A Student’s Experience (X-F Luo)
  
  


• Histophysics:
  
  
  
  • The Histophysics Story (L Lam)
  
  
  • How Nature Self-organizes: Active Walks in Complex Systems (L Lam)
  
  
  • Histophysics: A New Discipline (L Lam)
  
  
  • History: Present and Future (L Lam)
  
  
  • History: A Science Matter (L Lam)
  
  
  • Bilinear Effect in Complex Systems (L Lam et al.)
  
  


• Art:
  
  
  
  • Arts: A Science Matter (L Lam)
  
  
  • Making Movies and Making Physics (H Tsui and L Lam)
  
  
  • Su Dong-Po’s Bamboo and Paul Cézanne’s Apple (L Lam and L-M Qiu)
  
  
  • On Art (L Lam)
  
  
  • Chinese Painting: Innovation and Educational Training (L Lam)
  
  


• Philosophy:
  
  
  
  • Philosophy: A Science Matter (L Lam)
  
  
  • Philosophy: East and West (L Lam)
  
  


• Science:
  
  
  
  • About Science 1: Basics — Knowledge, Nature, Science and Scimat (L Lam)
  
  
  • About Science 2: Philosophy, Science, Sociology and Communication (L Lam)
  
  
  • Scicomm, Popsci and The Real World (L Lam)
  
  
  • Solitons and Revolution in China: 1978–1983 (L Lam)
  
  
  • Liquid Crystal Research at Tsinghua University in the 1970s and 1980s (L Lam)
  
  
  • The Invention of Bowlics and its Lessons for Chinese Innovation (L Lam)
  
  
  • The Founding of the International Liquid Crystal Society (L Lam)
  
  


• Appendices:
  
  
  
  • Hawking and His Legacy
  
  
  • Lui Lam’s Academic Life
  
  


• Index

Readership: Readers, ranging from high school students and laypeople to professors of all disciplines, who are interested in what the humanities and science are about, as well as new ideas in bridging them.

Key Features:

• This book collects 26 original articles in the humanities, 21 published and 5 unpublished, from 2000 to 2024, by the founder of Scimat, plus a related article by a student of the Scimat general-education course


• For ease of reading, articles are arranged according to content, not the dates they appeared. The book consists of five parts: Scimat, Histophysics, Art, Philosophy, and Science. It ends with two appendices: Hawking and His Legacy, and Lui Lam’s Academic Life


• The Hawking review is the earliest, thorough, and objective examination of Hawking’s academic achievements and life, done 72 days after his death, published in English here for the first time


• Articles in this book are full articles with references, backing up the 100 essays in the accompanying volume Humanities, Science, Scimat (World Scientific, 2024). It is recommended that the two books are bought together