When Einstein Walked with Gödel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Einstein Walked with Gödel write by Jim Holt. This book was released on 2018-05-15. When Einstein Walked with Gödel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot. Holt offers a painless and playful introduction to many of our most beautiful but least understood ideas, from Einsteinian relativity to string theory, and also invites us to consider why the greatest logician of the twentieth century believed the U.S. Constitution contained a terrible contradiction—and whether the universe truly has a future.
A World Without Time
A World Without Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World Without Time write by Palle Yourgrau. This book was released on 2009-03-04. A World Without Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. The two walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science in which they had grown up. By 1949, Godel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist . Einstein endorsed this result-reluctantly, since it decisively overthrew the classical world-view to which he was committed. But he could find no way to refute it, and in the half-century since then, neither has anyone else. Even more remarkable than this stunning discovery, however, was what happened afterward: nothing. Cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded with their work as if Godel's proof never existed -one of the greatest scandals of modern intellectual history. A World Without Time is a sweeping, ambitious book, and yet poignant and intimate. It tells the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue from undeserved obscurity the brilliant work they did together.
Why Does the World Exist
Why Does the World Exist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Does the World Exist write by Jim Holt. This book was released on 2012-07-17. Why Does the World Exist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddleof existence from the ancient world to modern times.
Incompleteness
Incompleteness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Incompleteness write by Rebecca Goldstein. This book was released on 2006-01-31. Incompleteness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes write by Jim Holt. This book was released on 2008-07-17. Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”—Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness—just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor’s history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America’s most beloved philosophical pundit.
