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The Outer Limits of Reason

Author : Noson S. Yanofsky
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026252984X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Outer Limits of Reason written by Noson S. Yanofsky and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves. “A must-read for anyone studying information science.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own intuitions about the world—including our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve: • perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense • different levels of infinity • the bizarre world of the quantum • the relevance of relativity theory • the causes of chaos theory • math problems that cannot be solved by normal means • statements that are true but cannot be proven Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.

The Déjà Vu Experiment

Author : J. G. Renato
Publisher : Veritas Shield
ISBN 13 : 0989718603
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book The Déjà Vu Experiment written by J. G. Renato and published by Veritas Shield. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're everywhere around us, but usually we choose to ignore them. They happen in space. They happen in time. They’re little moments of discontinuity in our experience, but they can become portals to the greater experience of our world as illusion, as the veil, as maya, as the collective dream – and the experience of ourselves as the dreamers. If we choose not to ignore them, but to follow them, like Alice down a cosmic rabbit hole, we might just begin to understand how it was that we got here in the first place. Offering unique ways to look at light, quantum physics, string theory, the universe existing as a single unified melody, the power of imagination, free will, the language of mathematics, death, and more, Renato successfully challenged me to consider not just “Who am I?” but “What am I?” — Patricia Reding, Readers’ Favorite J. G. Renato attempts to uncover the deeper meaning behind that often disconcerting déjà vu we’ve all experienced at some time or other. He skillfully uses this sense of stepping out of one plane of reality and seeing things from a different perspective to explore the whole nature of being, presence, and existence. Most crucially, he poses the thorny question of how spiritual phenomena can fit within a world obsessed by rationality and tangible productivity. … The key achievement of this slight volume is managing to be metaphysical while remaining lighthearted and fun. — Seamus Mullarkey, ForeWord Reviews

Levels of Infinity

Author : Hermann Weyl
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486266931
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Levels of Infinity written by Hermann Weyl and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original anthology features less-technical essays discussing logic, topology, abstract algebra, relativity theory, and the works of David Hilbert. Most have been long unavailable or previously unpublished in book form. 2012 edition.

The Pea and the Sun

Author : Leonard M. Wapner
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439864845
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Pea and the Sun written by Leonard M. Wapner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an apple and cut it into five pieces. Would you believe that these five pieces can be reassembled in such a fashion so as to create two apples equal in shape and size to the original? Would you believe that you could make something as large as the sun by breaking a pea into a finite number of pieces and putting it back together again? Neither did Leonard Wapner, author of The Pea and the Sun, when he was first introduced to the Banach-Tarski paradox, which asserts exactly such a notion. Written in an engaging style, The Pea and the Sun catalogues the people, events, and mathematics that contributed to the discovery of Banach and Tarski's magical paradox. Wapner makes one of the most interesting problems of advanced mathematics accessible to the non-mathematician.

In Search of Dark Matter

Author : Ken Freeman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387276181
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Dark Matter written by Ken Freeman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for the educated non-scientist and scientist alike, it spans a variety of scientific disciplines, from observational astronomy to particle physics. Concepts that the reader will encounter along the way are at the cutting edge of scientific research. However the themes are explained in such a way that no prior understanding of science beyond a high school education is necessary.

Beyond Pluto

Author : John Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139428774
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Pluto written by John Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ten years preceding publication, the known solar system more than doubled in size. For the first time in almost two centuries an entirely new population of planetary objects was found. This 'Kuiper Belt' of minor planets beyond Neptune revolutionised our understanding of the solar system's formation and finally explained the origin of the enigmatic outer planet Pluto. This is the fascinating story of how theoretical physicists decided that there must be a population of unknown bodies beyond Neptune and how a small band of astronomers set out to find them. What they discovered was a family of ancient planetesimals whose orbits and physical properties were far more complicated than anyone expected. We follow the story of this discovery, and see how astronomers, theoretical physicists and one incredibly dedicated amateur observer came together to explore the frozen boundary of the solar system.

History of Topology

Author : I.M. James
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080534074
Total Pages : 1067 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book History of Topology written by I.M. James and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1999-08-24 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topology, for many years, has been one of the most exciting and influential fields of research in modern mathematics. Although its origins may be traced back several hundred years, it was Poincaré who "gave topology wings" in a classic series of articles published around the turn of the century. While the earlier history, sometimes called the prehistory, is also considered, this volume is mainly concerned with the more recent history of topology, from Poincaré onwards.As will be seen from the list of contents the articles cover a wide range of topics. Some are more technical than others, but the reader without a great deal of technical knowledge should still find most of the articles accessible. Some are written by professional historians of mathematics, others by historically-minded mathematicians, who tend to have a different viewpoint.

The Outer Limits At 50

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983917526
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Outer Limits At 50 written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing wrong with your television set...Fifty years ago, a new TV program called The Outer Limits exploded across the consciousness of an entire generation. A half-century later, Creature Features celebrates the Golden Anniversary of this classic and provocative series. The awe and mystery of the universe awaits!

Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations

Author : Brian Hayes
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536072
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations written by Brian Hayes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability. Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too much fun to be left to the mathematicians. Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations is his entertaining and accessible exploration of mathematical terrain both far-flung and nearby, bringing readers tidings of mathematical topics from Markov chains to Sudoku. Hayes, a non-mathematician, argues that mathematics is not only an essential tool for understanding the world but also a world unto itself, filled with objects and patterns that transcend earthly reality. In a series of essays, Hayes sets off to explore this exotic terrain, and takes the reader with him. Math has a bad reputation: dull, difficult, detached from daily life. As a talking Barbie doll opined, “Math class is tough.” But Hayes makes math seem fun. Whether he's tracing the genealogy of a well-worn anecdote about a famous mathematical prodigy, or speculating about what would happen to a lost ball in the nth dimension, or explaining that there are such things as quasirandom numbers, Hayes wants readers to share his enthusiasm. That's why he imagines a cinematic treatment of the discovery of the Riemann zeta function (“The year: 1972. The scene: Afternoon tea in Fuld Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey”), explains that there is math in Sudoku after all, and describes better-than-average averages. Even when some of these essays involve a hike up the learning curve, the view from the top is worth it.

Mathematics for Engineers and Science Labs Using Maxima

Author : Seifedine Kadry
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429891598
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics for Engineers and Science Labs Using Maxima written by Seifedine Kadry and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to be a vital companion to math textbooks covering the topics of precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and probability and statistics. While these existing textbooks focus mainly on solving mathematic problems using the old paper-and-pencil method, this book teaches how to solve these problems using Maxima open-source software. Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, sets, lists, vectors, and matrices. One of the benefits of using Maxima to solve mathematics problems is the immediacy with which it produces answers. Investing in learning Maxima now will pay off in the future, particularly for students and beginning professionals in mathematics, science, and engineering. The volume will help readers to apply nearly all of the Maxima skills discussed here to future courses and research.

The Zanti Misfits

Author : John Peel
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812590630
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Zanti Misfits written by John Peel and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting series of six original digest-sized novels based on the hit-TV series "The Outer Limits". The rulers of the planet Zanti have found a solution to the problem of what to do with undesirable misfits and dangerous malcontents who threaten their society--exile them to Earth! The leaders of Earth are powerless to object. Teenagers Ben Garth and Lisa Lawrence are outcasts, too. Now they're on the run and headed towards a terrifying showdown with the Zanti misfits.

Beyond the Finite

Author : Roald Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199750564
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Finite written by Roald Hoffmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and the unrepresentable. How does one depict negative mass, for example, or the folding of a protein that is contagious? Can one capture emergent phenomena as they emerge? Science is continually faced with describing that which is beyond. This book, through contributions from nine prominent scholars, tackles that challenge. The explorations within Beyond the Finite range from the images taken by the Hubble Telescope to David Bohm's quantum romanticism, from Kant and Burke to a "downward spiraling infinity" of the 21st century sublime, all lucid yet transcendent. Squarely positioned at the interface between science and art, this volume's chapters capture a remarkable variety of perspectives, with neuroscience, chemistry, astronomy, physics, film, painting and music discussed in relation to the sublime experience, topics surely to peak the interest of academics and students studying the sublime in various disciplines.

Foundations of Combinatorial Topology

Author : L. S. Pontryagin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486406857
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Combinatorial Topology written by L. S. Pontryagin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise, rigorous introduction to homology theory features applications to dimension theory and fixed-point theorems. Lucid coverage of the field includes examinations of complexes and their Betti groups, invariance of the Betti groups, and continuous mappings and fixed points. Proofs are presented in a complete and careful manner. A beneficial text for a graduate-level course, "this little book is an extremely valuable addition to the literature of algebraic topology." — The Mathematical Gazette.

The Enigma of Reason

Author : Hugo Mercier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674368304
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book The Enigma of Reason written by Hugo Mercier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brilliant...Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times “Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly discredited.” —Darren Frey, Science If reason is what makes us human, why do we behave so irrationally? And if it is so useful, why didn’t it evolve in other animals? This groundbreaking account of the evolution of reason by two renowned cognitive scientists seeks to solve this double enigma. Reason, they argue, helps us justify our beliefs, convince others, and evaluate arguments. It makes it easier to cooperate and communicate and to live together in groups. Provocative, entertaining, and undeniably relevant, The Enigma of Reason will make many reasonable people rethink their beliefs. “Reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational. Rarely has this insight seemed more relevant...Still, an essential puzzle remains: How did we come to be this way?...Cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber [argue that] reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems...[but] to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative groups.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker “Turns reason’s weaknesses into strengths, arguing that its supposed flaws are actually design features that work remarkably well.” —Financial Times “The best thing I have read about human reasoning. It is extremely well written, interesting, and very enjoyable to read.” —Gilbert Harman, Princeton University

The Limits of Interpretation

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208699
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Interpretation written by Umberto Eco and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents four theories describing the limits of literary interpretation, challenging "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation" that diminishes the meaning and the basis of communication. -- Back cover.

Mind Children

Author : Hans Moravec
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674576186
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Mind Children written by Hans Moravec and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dizzying display of intellect and wild imaginings by Moravec, a world-class roboticist who has himself developed clever beasts . . . Undeniably, Moravec comes across as a highly knowledgeable and creative talent--which is just what the field needs".--Kirkus Reviews.

A Book of Abstract Algebra

Author : Charles C Pinter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486474178
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book A Book of Abstract Algebra written by Charles C Pinter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible but rigorous, this outstanding text encompasses all of the topics covered by a typical course in elementary abstract algebra. Its easy-to-read treatment offers an intuitive approach, featuring informal discussions followed by thematically arranged exercises. This second edition features additional exercises to improve student familiarity with applications. 1990 edition.