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100	1		_aHolt, Jim
240	1	0	_aEssays. _kSelections
245	1	0	_aWhen Einstein walked with Godel : _bexcursions to the edge of thought _cby Jim Holt.
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c©2018
300			_axi, 368 p. ; _c24 cm
500			_aIncludes index.
505			_tPart I: The Moving Image of Eternity 1.When Einstein Walked with Godel 2.Time-the Grand Illusion? _tPart 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 _tPart III: Mathematics, Pure and Impure 6.A Mathematical Romance 7.The Avatars of Higher Mathematics 8.Benoit Mandelbrot and the Discovery of Fractals _tPart IV: Higher Dimensions, Abstract Maps 9.Geometrical Creatures 10.A Comedy of Colors _tPart 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 _tPart 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 _tPart 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? _tPart 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 _tPart 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.
520			_a"A collection of essays on philosophy, mathematics, and science, and the people who pursue them"--
650			_aAmerican essays.
650			_aApplied mathematics.
650			_aMathematics -- History.
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