Éditeur : FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX INC.
ISBN papier: 9780374538422
Parution : 2019
Code produit : 1382574
Catégorisation :
Livres /
Sciences humaines /
Philosophie /
Philosophie
Format | Qté. disp. | Prix* | Commander |
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Livre papier | En rupture de stock** |
Prix membre : 22,05 $ Prix non-membre : 24,50 $ |
*Les prix sont en dollars canadien. Taxes et frais de livraison en sus.
**Ce produits est en rupture de stock mais sera expédié dès qu'ils sera disponible.
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.
Livre papier | 0 |
Prix membre : 17,05 $ Prix non-membre : 18,95 $ |
Éditeur : 10/18
ISBN : 9782264048899
Parution : 2009