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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Holt, Jim, 1954- author.     Subjects     Philosophy.     Mathematics.     Science.     Essays.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Holt, Jim, 1954- author.       by title:      When Einstein walked...         MARC Display

When Einstein walked with Gödel : excursions to the edge of thought / Jim Holt. by Holt, Jim, 1954- author. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. Subjects Philosophy.   Mathematics.   Science.   Essays. ISBN:  9780374146702 (hardcover) 0374146705 (hardcover) Description:  xi, 368 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A collection of essays on philosophy, mathematics, and science, and the people who pursue them"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.6 Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 814.6 Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.6 Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.6 Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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