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Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Gödel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics

By Martin Gardner

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2003
ISBN
0393057429, 9780393325720, 9780393057423, 0393325725
LCC
QA99 .G37 2003
Open Library ID
OL3671863M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3182391 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
352\306
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00
Математика;Популярная математика

Description

Martin Gardner, debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery, explores in this title startling scientific concepts, such as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backwards. Armed with his expert, sceptical eye, he examines the bizarre tangents produced by Freudians and deconstructionists in their critiques of "Little Red Riding Hood" and reveals the fallacies of pseudoscientific cures, from Doctor Bruno Bettelheim's erroneous theory of autism to the cruel farces of Facilitated Communication and Primal Scream Therapy.

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