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Cargando... Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topicspor Martin Gardner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I love Martin Gardner, but I did not find this to be one of his more interesting works. There were parts of it that were excellent, in Gardner style, but as with many collections of previously written essays, there were a number that failed to hold my interest. In a book like this, it's often a good idea to sort of skip from place to place, picking those that work, and moving on from those that don't without finishing them; unfortunately, I am incapable of doing this. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"In these essays, many of which originally appeared in The Skeptical Inquirer, Scientific American, and the Los Angeles Times, Gardner spans the realms of science and mathematics, literature, philosophy, religion, and mysticism. He examines influential scientific concepts, such as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backward. With a keen skepticism he skewers the practitioners of fallacious pseudoscience, from Dr. Bruno Bettelheim's erroneous theory of autism to the cruel farces of Facilitated Communication and Primal Scream Therapy and the dubious magic of Uri Geller, who claimed to bend spoons with his mind. With sympathy and a wide-ranging intelligence, Gardner analyzes the bizarre tangents produced by Freudians and deconstructionists in their critiques of the "Little Red Riding Hood" fairy tale. Offering several literary appreciations of his own, Gardner lovingly recalls the Tin Woodman from The Wizard of Oz and Chesterton's classic The Man Who Was Thursday, and he introduces readers to Ian Stewart's popular mathematical fable Flatterworld and to the neglected mysteries of British suspense writer Edgar Wallace." "Gardner's essays are a testament to his invaluable contributions to our understanding of legitimate scientific inquiry of the past century."--BOOK JACKET. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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