Gardners whys and wherefores

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Interest will be charged to your account from the purchase date if the balance is not paid in full within 6 months. Minimum monthly payments are required. Subject to credit approval. See terms. More to explore :. Image not available Photos not available for this variation. Martin Gardner's legacy in mathematics and science is well established, and never is he so at home than when picking apart paranormal claims and pseudoscience.

Yet like Isaac Asimov, Gardner's interests encompass a wide range of views and arguments. Gardner expresses strong opinions about the "anthropic principle," computer games capable of discovering scientific laws, the philosophy of W.

Quine, Marvin Minsky's view of the workings of the mind, the idiosyncrasies of social theorist Allan Bloom, the reality of unknown digits that "sleep" in pi, and whether physicists are really on the verge of discovering Everything. Not in Library. Want to Read. Delete Note Save Note. Download for print-disabled.

Check nearby libraries Library. Share this book Facebook. December 1, History. This edition was published in by Prometheus Books in Amherst, N. Written in English — pages. Subjects American essays , Essays single author , Books, reviews , Science, popular works , Mathematics, popular works.

Libraries near you: WorldCat. Borrow Listen. Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references. As well, he is the author and editor of numerous books and essays on a wide range of topics in mathematics, science, philosophy and literature. Each is short; some only a few pages long, others a dozen or so. For me, there are several gems here: an essay on E. I think that for Gardiner symbolism in literature is a puzzle to be cracked.

Thus, the reader looking for something on, say, the ecological consequencesof modern science and technologywill be disappointed; such matters are not discussed.

Rather, what fascinatesGardner about contemporary science are the issueson the frontier of thought, such as chaos theory, fractals,complexitytheory and superstrings. Out of contemporary physics, in particular, have emerged deep methodologicaland philosophical indeed, theological issues.

Many of these, from the subquantum level to the cosmological,are examined here. And Gardner is not shy in revealing his position on these matters. David Peat. The objectivesof Leonard0 have been attained in this great book both in the style and content.