When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
By: Jim Holt
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an enterta…
Want to Read $ 12.99"The river of time may have its rapids and its calmer stretches, but one thing would seem to be certain: it carries all of us, willy-nilly, in its flow. Irresistibly, irreversibly, we are being borne toward our deaths at the stark rate of one second per second. As the past slips out of existence behind us, the future, once unknown and mysterious, assumes its banal reality before us as it yields to the ever-hurrying now."-Jim Holt, When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
"The river of time may have its rapids and its calmer stretches, but one thing would seem to be certain: it carries all of us, willy-nilly, in its flow. Irresistibly, irreversibly, we are being borne toward our deaths at the stark rate of one second per second. As the past slips out of existence behind us, the future, once unknown and mysterious, assumes its banal reality before us as it yields to the ever-hurrying now."-Jim Holt, When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
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1. Gödel's Proof
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter , Ernest Nagel , James Roy Newman
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Princi… read more
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2. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: None
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Our Mathematical Universeis a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discov… read more
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3. Quantum Computing Since Democritus
By: Scott Aaronson
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour throu… read more
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4. A Mathematician's Apology
By: G.H. Hardy
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in 1940 as his mathematical powers were declining, G.H. Hardy's apology offers an engaging … read more
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5. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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6. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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8. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more
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9. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
10. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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11. Math Without Numbers
By: Milo Beckman
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call math The only numbers in this book ar… read more
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12. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
13. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
By: Thomas Hertog
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more
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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
14. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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15. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
16. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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17. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
18. The Art of Solitude
By: Stephen Batchelor
3.63
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his t… read more
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"The world is here to surprise us. My most lasting insights have occurred off the [meditation] cushion, not on it."-Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude
"That is why it is not enough to remove oneself from people, not enough to go somewhere else. We have to remove ourselves from the habits of the populace that are within us. We have to isolate our own…"-Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude
19. When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
By: Jim Holt
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an enterta… read more
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"The river of time may have its rapids and its calmer stretches, but one thing would seem to be certain: it carries all of us, willy-nilly, in its flow. Irresistibly, irreversibly, we are being borne …"-Jim Holt, When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
20. Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
By: Paul Sen
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining, eye-opening account of how the laws of thermodynamics are essential to understan… read more
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21. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical sys… read more
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