Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Mathematical recreations.
ISBN : 9780716719250
Describes puzzles involving time travel paradoxes, hexes, stars, cards, anamorphic art, magic squares, and polygons
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470463652
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This is the original 1988 edition and contains columns published from 1974-1976.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470463598
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume, first published in 1979, contains columns published in the magazine from 1968-1971. This 1992 MAA edition contains a foreword by Donald Knuth and a postscript and extended bibliography added by Gardner for this edition.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780883855218
Another superb collection of articles from Martin Gardner, the king of recreational mathematics.
Author : Paul J. Nahin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387985718
This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more.
Author : Ryan Wasserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192511823
Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. He draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. The Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an accessible style, and filled with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470463520
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume, originally published in 1959, contains the first sixteen columns published in the magazine from 1956-1958. They were reviewed and briefly updated by Gardner for this 1988 edition.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470463679
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This is the original 1992 edition and contains columns published from 1978-1979.
Author : Clifford A. Pickover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1999-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199929920
"Bucky Fuller thought big," Wired magazine recently noted, "Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." In his newest book, Cliff Pickover outdoes even himself, probing a mystery that has baffled mystics, philosophers, and scientists throughout history--What is the nature of time? In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Pickover takes readers to the forefront of science as he illuminates the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe--time itself. Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does it flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning and an end? What is eternity? Pickover's book offers a stimulating blend of Chopin, philosophy, Einstein, and modern physics, spiced with diverting side-trips to such topics as the history of clocks, the nature of free will, and the reason gold glitters. Numerous diagrams ensure readers will have no trouble following along. By the time we finish this book, we understand a wide variety of scientific concepts pertaining to time. And most important, we will understand that time travel is, indeed, possible.
Author : Nikk Effingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019258006X
There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends that no such argument is sound and that time travel is metaphysically possible. His main focus is on the Grandfather Paradox: the position that time travel is impossible because someone could not go back in time and kill their own grandfather before he met their grandmother. In such a case, Effingham argues that the time traveller would have the ability to do the impossible (so they could kill their grandfather) even though those impossibilities will never come about (so they won't kill their grandfather). He then explores the ramifications of this view, discussing issues in probability and decision theory. The book ends by laying out the dangers of time travel and why, even though no time machines currently exist, we should pay extra special care ensuring that nothing, no matter how small or microscopic, ever travels in time.
