Мартин Гарднер «Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Gödel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics»

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Мартин Гарднер

Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Gödel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics

Сборник, 2003 год

Язык написания: английский

Аннотация:

Сборник статей из колонки Notes of a Fringe Watcher для журнала The Skeptical Inquirer , а также введений к нескольким книгам.

В произведение входит: по порядку по году по рейтингу

Preface
Part I. Science
Multiverses and Blackberries (2001)			-
A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper (2001)			-
Rudolf Carnap, Philosopher of Science			-
Some Thoughts About Induction (2002)			-
Can Time Go Backward? (1967)			-
Part II. Mathematics
Against the Odds (2001)			-
Fun with Mobius Bands (2003)			-
Is Mathematics "Out There"? (2003)			-
Ian Stewart's Flatterland (2001)			-
Kurt Gödel's Amazing Discovery (2000)			-
New Results on Magic Hexagrams (2000)			-
Part III. Religion
The Strange Case of Garry Wills (2000)			-
Mad Messiahs (2000)			-
Oahspe (1996)			-
David Bohm and Jiddo Krishnamurti (2000) [The Vagueness of Krishnamurti ]			-
Part IV. Literature
Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday (1999)			-
Ernest Hemingway and Jane (2001)			-
Three Parodies of Famous Poems
What's Done Is Done (With apologies to Henry Longfellow)			-
Jackson Pollock (With apologies to Rudyard Kipling)			-
The Holdup Man (With Apologies to Alfred Noyes)			-
Edgar Wallace and The Green Archer (2003)			-
Afterword to The Green Archer			-
The Tin Woodman of Oz (1996)			-
Part V. Moonshine
Little Red Riding Hood (2000)			-
The Brutality of Dr. Bettelheim (2000)			-
Facilitated Communication: A Cruel Farce (2001)			-
Distant Healing and Elizabeth Targ (2001)			-
The Therapeutic Touch (2000)			-
Primal Scream: A Persistent New Age Therapy (2001) [Primal Scream Therapy]			-
Eyeless Vision [= Eyeless Vision and God] (1994)			-
Magic and Psi (1996)			-
How Mrs. Piper Bamboozled William James (1996)			-
"Dr." Henry Slade, American Medium (1996)			-