When Einstein walked with Godel :
Holt, Jim
When Einstein walked with Godel : excursions to the edge of thought by Jim Holt. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2018 - xi, 368 p. ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Part I: The Moving Image of Eternity
1.When Einstein Walked with Godel
2.Time-the Grand Illusion?
Part II: Numbers in the Brain, in Platonic Heaven, and in Society 3.Numbers Guy: The Neuroscience of Math
4.The Riemann Zeta Conjecture and the Laughter of the Primes
5.Sir Francis Galton, the Father of Statistics... and Eugenics Part III: Mathematics, Pure and Impure
6.A Mathematical Romance
7.The Avatars of Higher Mathematics
8.Benoit Mandelbrot and the Discovery of Fractals Part IV: Higher Dimensions, Abstract Maps
9.Geometrical Creatures
10.A Comedy of Colors Part V: Infinity, Large and Small
11.Infinite Visions: Georg Cantor v. David Foster Wallace 12.Worshipping Infinity: Why the Russians Do and the French Don't 13.The Dangerous Idea of the Infinitesimal Part VI: Heroism, Tragedy, and the Computer Age
14.The Ada Perplex: Was Byron's Daughter the First Coder? Contents note continued:
15.Alan Turing in Life, Logic, and Death
16.Dr. Strangelove Makes a Thinking Machine
17.Smarter, Happier, More Productive Part VII: The Cosmos Reconsidered
18.The String Theory Wars: Is Beauty Truth?
19.Einstein, "Spooky Action," and the Reality of Space
20.How Will the Universe End? Part VIII: Quick Studies: A Selection of Shorter Essays
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 Part IX: God, Sainthood, Truth, and Bullshit
21.Dawkins and the Deity
22.On Moral Sainthood
23.Truth and Reference: A Philosophical Feud 24.Say Anything.
"A collection of essays on philosophy, mathematics, and science, and the people who pursue them"--
9780374538422
2017038334
American essays.
Applied mathematics.
Mathematics -- History.
PS3608.O4943595 / A6 2018
814.6 / HOL-W
When Einstein walked with Godel : excursions to the edge of thought by Jim Holt. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2018 - xi, 368 p. ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Part I: The Moving Image of Eternity
1.When Einstein Walked with Godel
2.Time-the Grand Illusion?
Part II: Numbers in the Brain, in Platonic Heaven, and in Society 3.Numbers Guy: The Neuroscience of Math
4.The Riemann Zeta Conjecture and the Laughter of the Primes
5.Sir Francis Galton, the Father of Statistics... and Eugenics Part III: Mathematics, Pure and Impure
6.A Mathematical Romance
7.The Avatars of Higher Mathematics
8.Benoit Mandelbrot and the Discovery of Fractals Part IV: Higher Dimensions, Abstract Maps
9.Geometrical Creatures
10.A Comedy of Colors Part V: Infinity, Large and Small
11.Infinite Visions: Georg Cantor v. David Foster Wallace 12.Worshipping Infinity: Why the Russians Do and the French Don't 13.The Dangerous Idea of the Infinitesimal Part VI: Heroism, Tragedy, and the Computer Age
14.The Ada Perplex: Was Byron's Daughter the First Coder? Contents note continued:
15.Alan Turing in Life, Logic, and Death
16.Dr. Strangelove Makes a Thinking Machine
17.Smarter, Happier, More Productive Part VII: The Cosmos Reconsidered
18.The String Theory Wars: Is Beauty Truth?
19.Einstein, "Spooky Action," and the Reality of Space
20.How Will the Universe End? Part VIII: Quick Studies: A Selection of Shorter Essays
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 Part IX: God, Sainthood, Truth, and Bullshit
21.Dawkins and the Deity
22.On Moral Sainthood
23.Truth and Reference: A Philosophical Feud 24.Say Anything.
"A collection of essays on philosophy, mathematics, and science, and the people who pursue them"--
9780374538422
2017038334
American essays.
Applied mathematics.
Mathematics -- History.
PS3608.O4943595 / A6 2018
814.6 / HOL-W