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When Einstein walked with Gödel : excursions to the edge of thought
- Title
- When Einstein walked with Gödel : excursions to the edge of thought / Jim Holt.
- Author
- Holt, Jim, 1954-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xi, 368 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A collection of essays on philosophy, mathematics, and science, and the people who pursue them"--
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-349) and index.
- Contents
- Part I: The moving image of eternity. When Einstein walked with Gödel ; Time - the grand illusion? -- Part II: Numbers in the brain, in platonic heaven, and in society. Numbers guy: the neuroscience of math ; The Riemann Zeta conjecture and the laughter of the primes ; Sir Francis Galton, the father of statistics...and eugenics -- Part III: Mathematics, pure and impure. A mathematical romance ; The avatars of higher mathematics ; Benoit Mandelbrot and the discovery of fractals -- Part IV: Higher dimensions, abstract maps. Geometrical creatures ; A comedy of colors -- Part V: Infinity, large and small. 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 -- Part VI: Heroism, tragedy, and the computer age. The Ada perplex: was Byron's daughter the first coder? ; Alan Turing in life, logic, and death ; Dr. Strangelove makes a thinking machine ; Smarter, happier, more productive -- Part VII: The cosmos reconsidered. The string theory wars: is beauty truth? ; Einstein, "Spooky action," and the reality of space ; How will the Universe end? -- Part VII: Quick studies: a selection of shorter essays. Little big man ; Doom soon ; Death: bad? ; The looking-glass war ; Astrology and the demarcation problem ; Gödel 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 -- Part IX: God, sainthood, truth, and bullshit. Dawkins and the deity ; On moral sainthood ; Truth and reference: a philosophical feud ; Say anything.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-5868
- ISBN
- 9780374146702
- 0374146705
- LCCN
- 2017038334
- 99977230285
- OCLC
- 1004376245
- Author
- Holt, Jim, 1954- author.
- Title
- When Einstein walked with Gödel : excursions to the edge of thought / Jim Holt.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-349) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99977230285
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-5868