Table of contents :
Cover
Half title
Imprint
Contents
Preface
Part I: The Moving Image of Eternity
1. When Einstein Walked with Gödel
2. Time—the Grand Illusion?
Part II: Numbers in the Brain, in Platonic Heaven, and in Society
3. Numbers Guy: The Neuroscience of Math
4. The Riemann Zeta Conjecture and the Laughter of the Primes
5. Sir Francis Galton, the Father of Statistics and Eugenics
Part III: Mathematics, Pure and Impure
6. A Mathematical Romance
7. The Avatars of Higher Mathematics
8. Benoit Mandelbrot and the Discovery of Fractals
Part IV: Higher Dimensions, Abstract Maps
9. Geometrical Creatures
A Comedy of Colors
Part V: Infinity, Large and Small
Infinite Visions: Georg Cantor v. David Foster Wallace
Worshipping Infinity: Why the Russians Do and the French Dont
The Dangerous Idea of the Infinitesimal
Part VI: Heroism, Tragedy, and the Computer Age
The Ada Perplex: Was Byrons Daughter the First Coder?
Alan Turing in Life, Logic, and Death
Dr. Strangelove Makes a Thinking Machine
Smarter, Happier, More Productive
Part VII: The Cosmos Reconsidered
The String Theory Wars: Is Beauty Truth?
19, Einstein, "Spooky Action," and the Reality of Space
How Will the U •
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