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The night is large: collected essays, 1938-1995
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St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
1996
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English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
Fearful symmetry
The twin paradox
Quantum wierdness
The computer as scientist
WAP, SAP, PAP, and FAP
Infinity and information
Can time stop? The past change?
Werner Heisenberg
Superstrings
The ultimate turtle
Why I am not a Smithian
The Laffer curve
H.G. Wells in Russia
Beyond cultural relativism
Klingon and other artificial languages
Pseudscience in the nineteenth century
The irrelevance of Conon Doyle
Wilhelm Reich and the orgone
Freud, Fleiss, and Emma's nose
William James and Mrs. Piper
Close encounters of the third kind
Mathematics and the folkways
Mr. Apollinax visits New York
How not to talk about mathematics
Coleridge nd The ancient mariner
Lewis Carroll and his Alice books
The royal historian of Oz
Georges Perec
Puzzles in Ulysses
Who was Shakespeare?
White, brown, and fractal music
The significance of "nothing"
Newcomb's paradox
Is "realism" a dirty word?
The mystery of free will
Computers near the threshold?
The curious mind of Allan Bloom
Isaiah Berlin : fox or hedgehog?
Why I am not a pragmatist
Gardner's Whys
The Popperism of Sir Karl
W.V. Quine
The irrelevance of "everything"
The strange case of Robert Maynard Hutchins
The wandering Jew and the Second Coming
Proofs of God
Surprise.
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031214380
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