| Description |
xi, 368 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
When Einstein walked with Gödel -- Time--the grand illusion -- Numbers guy: the neuroscience of math -- Riemann Zeta Conjecture and the laughter of the primes -- Sir Francis Galton, the father of statistics...and eugenics -- Mathematical romance -- Avatars of higher mathematics -- Benoit Mandelbrot and the discovery of fractals -- Geometrical creatures -- Comedy of colors -- Infinite visions : Georg Cantor v. David Foster Wallace -- Worshipping infinity: Why the Russians do and the French don't -- The dangerous idea of the infinitesimal -- The Ada Perplex: Was Byron's daughter the first coder? -- Alan Turing in life, logic, and death -- Dr. Strangelove makes a thinking machine -- The string theory wars: Is beauty truth? -- Einstein, "Spooky Action," and the realities of space -- How will the universe end? -- Little big man -- Doom soon -- Death: Bad? -- The looking-glass war -- Astrology and the demarcation problem -- Godel takes on the U.S. constitution -- The law of least action -- Emmy Noether's beautiful theorem -- Is logic coercive? -- Newcomb's problem and the paradox of choice -- The right not to exist -- Can't anyone get Heisenberg right? -- Overconfidence and the Monty Hall problem -- The cruel law of eponymy -- The mind of a rock -- Dawkins and the deity -- On moral sainthood -- Truth and refernce: A philosophical feud -- Say anything. |
| Summary |
"A collection of essays on philosophy, mathematics, and science, and the people who pursue them"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-349) and index. |
| Subject |
Essays.
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| ISBN |
9780374146702 (hardcover) |
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