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02980nam a22003257a 4500 |
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20001842 |
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IIITD |
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20231023111521.0 |
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170918s2018 nyu 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2017038334 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780374538422 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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DLC |
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rda |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3608.O4943595 |
| Item number |
A6 2018 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
814.6 |
| Edition number |
23 |
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HOL-W |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Holt, Jim |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
<a href="Essays.">Essays.</a> |
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Selections |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
When Einstein walked with Godel : |
| Remainder of title |
excursions to the edge of thought |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Jim Holt. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |
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©2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 368 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Part I: The Moving Image of Eternity <br/>1.When Einstein Walked with Godel <br/>2.Time-the Grand Illusion?<br/> |
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Part II: Numbers in the Brain, in Platonic Heaven, and in Society 3.Numbers Guy: The Neuroscience of Math <br/>4.The Riemann Zeta Conjecture and the Laughter of the Primes <br/>5.Sir Francis Galton, the Father of Statistics... and Eugenics |
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Part III: Mathematics, Pure and Impure <br/>6.A Mathematical Romance <br/>7.The Avatars of Higher Mathematics <br/>8.Benoit Mandelbrot and the Discovery of Fractals |
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Part IV: Higher Dimensions, Abstract Maps <br/>9.Geometrical Creatures <br/>10.A Comedy of Colors |
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Part V: Infinity, Large and Small <br/>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 |
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Part VI: Heroism, Tragedy, and the Computer Age <br/>14.The Ada Perplex: Was Byron's Daughter the First Coder? Contents note continued: <br/>15.Alan Turing in Life, Logic, and Death <br/>16.Dr. Strangelove Makes a Thinking Machine <br/>17.Smarter, Happier, More Productive |
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Part VII: The Cosmos Reconsidered <br/>18.The String Theory Wars: Is Beauty Truth? <br/>19.Einstein, "Spooky Action," and the Reality of Space <br/>20.How Will the Universe End? |
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Part VIII: Quick Studies: A Selection of Shorter Essays<br/>Little Big Man <br/>Doom Soon <br/>Death: Bad? <br/>The Looking-Glass War <br/>Astrology and the Demarcation Problem <br/>Godel Takes On the U.S. Constitution <br/>The Law of Least Action Emmy Noether's Beautiful Theorem Is Logic Coercive? <br/>Newcomb's Problem and the Paradox of Choice <br/>The Right Not to Exist <br/>Can't Anyone Get Heisenberg Right? <br/>Overconfidence and the Monty Hall Problem <br/>The Cruel Law of Eponymy <br/>The Mind of a Rock |
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Part IX: God, Sainthood, Truth, and Bullshit <br/>21.Dawkins and the Deity <br/>22.On Moral Sainthood <br/>23.Truth and Reference: A Philosophical Feud 24.Say Anything. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"A collection of essays on philosophy, mathematics, and science, and the people who pursue them"-- |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
American essays. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Applied mathematics. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Mathematics -- History. |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Books |
