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Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy
Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy
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Sleight of Mind explores 75+ paradoxes in math, philosophy, physics, and social science, helping readers discover the meaning of knowledge and the proper formation of concepts. It begins with a paradox from Gilbert and Sullivans' Pirates of Penzance and travels from Ancient Greece to cutting-edge laboratories, encountering infinity and its different sizes, and discovering mathematical impossibilities inherent in elections.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 03 August 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Paradox is a sophisticated form of magic trick that creates the illusion of impossibility by manipulating words, concepts, and symbols. It explores 75+ paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and social science, helping readers discover the meaning of knowledge and the proper formation of concepts. The journey begins with a paradox from Gilbert and Sullivans' Pirates of Penzance and travels from Ancient Greece to cutting-edge laboratories, encountering infinity and its different sizes, and discovering mathematical impossibilities inherent in elections. Readers 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.
Weight: 476g
Dimension: 144 x 223 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780262542296
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