Are universes thicker than blackberries?
Are universes thicker than blackberries?: discourses on Gödel, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and other mathematical and pseudoscientific topics
by Martin Gardner
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.
ISBN: 0393057429
DDC: 510
LCC: QA99
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Science. Multiverses and blackberries -- Skeptical look at Karl
Popper -- Rudolf Carnap, philosopher of science -- Some thoughts
about induction -- Can time go backward? -- Mathematics. Against the
odds (a story) -- Fun with Mobius bands -- Is mathematics "out
there"? -- Ian Stewart's Flatterland -- Kurt Godel's amazing
discovery -- New results on magic hexagrams -- Religion. Strange case
of Garry Wills -- Mad messiahs -- Oahspe -- Vagueness of Krishnamurti
-- Literature. Chesterton's The man who was Thursday -- Ernest
Hemingway and Jane -- Three parodies of famous poems -- Edgar Wallace
and The green archer -- Afterword to The green archer -- Tin woodman
of Oz -- Moonshine. Little red riding hood -- Brutality of Dr.
Bettelheim -- Facilitated communication: a cruel farce -- Distant
healing and Elisabeth Targ -- Therapeutic touch -- Primal scream
therapy -- Eyeless vision -- Magic and Psi -- How Mrs. Piper
bamboozled William James -- "Dr." Henry Slade, American medium.
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