Sleight of mind : 75 ingenious paradoxes in mathematics, physics, and philosophy /
"Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn't require tangibles, like rabbits or hats. Paradox works in the abstract, with words and concepts and symbols, to c...
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| Main Author: |
Cook, Matt (Matthew)
(Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut) |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2020]
Cambridge, Massachusetts:
[2020]
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