When Einstein Walked With g del: Excursions to the Edge of Thought [Audiobook] download free by Jim Holt
- Listen audiobook: When Einstein Walked With g del: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- Author: Jim Holt
- Release date: 2018/8/24
- Publisher: FARRAR STRAUS AND GIROUX
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780374146702
- Rating: 7.16 of 10
- Votes: 338
- Review by: Brennan Cummings
- Review rating: 9.24 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/30
- Duration: 4H48M56S in 256 kbps (76.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WavPack, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4, WMA, Apple Lossless (compression ZIP, TAR.BZ2, GZ, LZO, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 384
- Includes a PDF summary of 46 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 33M18S (9.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Science: General Issues, Mathematics, Literary Essays, Philosophy, Cosmology & The Universe
- Download servers: FreakShare, Memopal, Mediafire, Google Drive, Dropbox, MEGA, Casebox, 4Shared. Compressed in ZIP, TAR.BZ2, GZ, LZO, RAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 30.34 USD
- Dimensions: 160x229x30mm
- Weight: 590g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York
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