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Part I The Moving Image of Eternity 1. When Einstein Walked with Gödel 3 2. Time-the Grand Illusion? 15 Part II Numbers in the Brain, in Platonic Heaven, and in Society 3. Numbers Guy: The Neuroscience of Math 23 4. The Riemann Zeta Conjecture and the Laughter of the Primes 36 5. Sir Francis Galton, the Father of Statistics … and Eugenics 51 Part III Mathematics, Pure and Impure 6. A Mathematical Romance 69 7. The Avatars of Higher Mathematics 79 8. Benoit Mandelbrot and the Discovery of Fractals 90 Part IV Higher Dimensions, Abstract Maps 9. Geometrical Creatures 105 10. A Comedy of Colors 118 Part V Infinity, Large and Small 11. Infinite Visions: Georg Cantor v. David Foster Wallace 131 12. Worshipping Infinity: Why the Russians Do and the French Don't 138 13. The Dangerous Idea of the Infinitesimal 149 Part VI Heroism, Tragedy, and the Computer Age 14. The Ada Perplex: Was Byron's Daughter the First Coder? 169 15. Alan Turing in Life, Logic, and Death 181 16. Dr. Strangelove Makes a Thinking Machine 194 17. Smarter, Happier, More Productive 203 Part VII The Cosmos Reconsidered 18. The String Theory Wars: Is Beauty Truth? 219 19. Einstein, "Spooky Action," and the Reality of Space 230 20. How Will the Universe End? 241 Part VIII Quick Studies: A Selection of Shorter Essays 255 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 21. Dawkins and the Deity 299 22. On Moral Sainthood 306 23. Truth and Reference: A Philosophical Feud 314 24. Say Anything 333 Further Reading 345 Acknowledgments 351 Index 353 |
Jim Holt
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