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Gardner's Whys & Wherefores

By Martin Gardner

Book information

Publisher
Prometheus Books
Year
1999
ISBN
1573927449, 9781573927444
LCC
PS3557.A714 G37 1999
Open Library ID
OL41281M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2221742 bytes)
Pages
270\270
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2011-01-23 12:00:00

Description

"Gardner's Whys and Wherefores includes articles on the puzzles in James Joyce's Ulysses and on the fantasies of Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Lord Dunsany, Gilbert Chesterton, and H. G. Wells. Gardner expresses strong opinions about the "anthropic principle," computer games capable of discovering scientific laws, the philosophy of W. V. Quine, Marvin Minsky's view of the workings of the mind, the idiosyncracies of social theorist Allan Bloom, the reality of unknown digits that "sleep" in pi, and whether physicists are really on the verge of discovering Everything."--BOOK JACKET.

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