The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995Macmillan, 15 jul 1997 - 608 páginas In The Night Is Large, Martin Gardner has assembled forty-seven challenging and inquisitive essays into a work that places him at the heart of twentieth-century American intellectual culture. Delving into an immense range of topics, from philosophy and literature to social criticism to mathematics and science, with essays that date from 1930s to the 1990s, Martin Gardner has astounded readers with his insight and erudition. The Night Is Large is the crowning achievement of his extraordinary career. |
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Índice
Fearful Symmetry | xvii |
The Twin Paradox | 7 |
Quantum Weirdness | 16 |
The Computer as Scientist | 26 |
WAP SAP PAP and FAP | 34 |
Infinity and Information | 44 |
Can Time Stop? The Past Change? | 53 |
Werner Heisenberg | 62 |
Coleridge and the Ancient Mariner | 291 |
Lewis Carroll and His Alice Books | 312 |
The Royal Historian of Oz | 322 |
Georges Perec | 342 |
Puzzles in Ulysses | 348 |
Who Was Shakespeare | 362 |
White Brown and Fractal Music | 369 |
PHILOSOPHY | 389 |
Superstrings | 72 |
The Ultimate Turtle | 86 |
SOCIAL SCIENCE | 97 |
Why I Am Not a Smithian | 99 |
The Laffer Curve | 121 |
HG Wells in Russia | 134 |
Beyond Cultural Relativism | 143 |
Klingon and Other Artificial Languages | 156 |
PSEUDOSCIENCE | 165 |
Pseudoscience in the Nineteenth Century | 167 |
The Irrelevance of Conan Doyle | 177 |
Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone | 187 |
Freud Fliess and Emmas Nose | 201 |
William James and Mrs Piper | 207 |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 238 |
Mathematics | 249 |
Mathematics and the Folkways | 251 |
Mr Apollinax Visits New York | 265 |
How Not to Talk About Mathematics | 274 |
THE ARTS | 289 |
The Significance of Nothing | 391 |
Newcombs Paradox | 406 |
Is Realism a Dirty Word? | 415 |
The Mystery of Free Will | 421 |
Computers near the Threshold? | 436 |
The Curious Mind of Allan Bloom | 444 |
Isaiah Berlin Fox or Hedgehog? | 451 |
Why I Am Not a Pragmatist | 458 |
Gardners Whys | 475 |
The Popperism of Sir Karl | 482 |
W V Quine | 485 |
FortyThree The Irrelevance of Everything | 489 |
RELIGION | 501 |
The Strange Case of Robert Maynard Hutchins | 503 |
The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming | 519 |
Proofs of God | 527 |
Surprise | 545 |
INDEX | 561 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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