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Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy
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- Book Title
- Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics,
- Artist
- Cook, Matt
- ISBN
- 0262542293
- Subject Area
- Science, Mathematics, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Sleight of Mind : 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy
- Item Length
- 8.7 in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Subject
- History & Philosophy, Logic, Physics / Mathematical & Computational
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 5.6 in
- Item Weight
- 17.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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This "fun, brain-twisting book . . . will make you think" as it explores more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences (Sean Carroll, New York Times -bestselling author of Something Deeply Hidden ). Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn't require tangibles, like rabbits or hats. Paradox works in the abstract, with words and concepts and symbols, to create the illusion of contradiction. There are no contradictions in reality, but there can appear to be. In Sleight of Mind , Matt Cook and a few collaborators dive deeply into more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, physics, philosophy, and the social sciences. As each paradox is discussed and resolved, Cook helps readers discover the meaning of knowledge and the proper formation of concepts--and how reason can dispel the illusion of contradiction. The journey begins with "a most ingenious paradox" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance . Readers will then travel from Ancient Greece to cutting-edge laboratories, encounter infinity and its different sizes, and discover mathematical impossibilities inherent in elections. They will tackle conundrums in probability, induction, geometry, and game theory; perform "supertasks"; build apparent perpetual motion machines; meet twins living in different millennia; explore the strange quantum world--and much more.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262542293
ISBN-13
9780262542296
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21050032404
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Sleight of Mind : 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History & Philosophy, Logic, Physics / Mathematical & Computational
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Mathematics, Philosophy
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2019-013954
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Bc199.P2c625 2019
Table of Content
1 Infinity 11 2 Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion 45 3 Supertasks 61 4 Probability 75 5 Social Choice 123 6 Game Theory 139 7 Self-Reference 167 8 Induction 243 9 Geometry 275 10 Operations 301 11 Classical Physics (by N. Laurita) 321 12 Special Relativity (by A. Chatwin-Davies) 343 13 Quantum Mechanics (with M. Coughlin, A. Chatwin-Davies)389 14 Invented or Discovered? 423
Dewey Decimal
165
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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