A doubter's almanac : a novel
Item details
- ISBN: 9781400068265
- ISBN: 1400068266
- ISBN: 9780812996784
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Physical Description:
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xi, 558 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | Induction. A late arrival ; Impossible ; Welcome to the world ; Singularity theory -- Deduction. Nature never lies ; poets ; The Newton of North Oakland ; Devil's fork ; The orrery ; China white -- Contraposition. Fine Hall ; Occam's razor ; Rise over run ; Dogs and horses ; Another roof, another proof ; Time and chance ; You can't comb the hair on a coconut ; Regression to the mean ; Welcome to the future ; Order of operations ; Transire Suum Pectus ; Ant on a rubber rope ; Reductio ad Impossibilem ; A Scandinavian weed ; Discovery ; Inventory -- Restatement. I confess ; Volatility smile ; The great war of the calculus ; Professor Gamble ; Nunquam Cede ; Scrivener's errors -- Conjecture. The tristate singularity ; Flatland ; A marrow lover's feast ; A nonconforming interval ; The reluctant Cartesian ; The real are almost all irrational ; Thomson's lamp ; Disciplina in Civitatem ; Molly and Sally -- Summation. Salads ; Non-Brownian gray ; Analysis Situs -- Proof. Drunkard's walk ; Alpha ; A topologist's apology ; The prisoner's dilemma ; Theodicy ; The expected teaches nothing ; Easy does it ; The truth at last ; Brompton's mixture ; The sum of infinitesimals ; The witch of Agnesi ; A unifying conjecture ; Contra Deum ; The Lord's daughter ; Proof by exhaustion ; 4656534 ; The curse of knowledge ; Mysterium Cosmographicum ; Drake ; The Battle of Trafalgar. |
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