Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics - Softcover

Gardner, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393325725 ISBN 13: 9780393325720

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In a society begging to be duped, Martin Gardner questions and debunks myths ranging from science and mathematics to literature, philosophy, religion, and mysticism.

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Críticas:

"Martin Gardner's contribution to contemporary intellectual culture is unique - in its range, its insight, and understanding of hard questions that matter." Noam Chomsky "...deftly debunk[s] everything from bogus medicinal remedies to psychic charlatans." Hazel Muir, New Scientist "He covers an astonishing range of topics..." Manjit Kumar, The Times Literary Supplement "Read it, as Gardner says, and weep." Victoria Neumark, The Times Educational Supplement

Reseña del editor:

Martin Gardner-"one of the most brilliant men and gracious writers I have ever known," wrote Stephen Jay Gould-is the wittiest, most devastating debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery of our time. In this new book Gardner explores startling scientific concepts, such as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backwards. Armed with his expert, skeptical eye, he examines the bizarre tangents produced by Freudians and deconstructionists in their critiques of "Little Red Riding Hood," and reveals the fallacies of pseudoscientific cures, from Dr. Bruno Bettelheim's erroneous theory of autism to the cruel farces of Facilitated Communication and Primal Scream Therapy. Ever prolific, and still engaging at the spry age of eighty-eight, Gardner has become an American institution unto himself, a writer to be celebrated.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0393325725
• ISBN 13: 9780393325720
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304