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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication date
February 13, 2006
Pages
210
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780465092949
ISBN-10
0465092942
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Original list price
$16.99
Other format details
sci/tech
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought | The Order of Time | Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity | Godel, Escher, Bach | Incompleteness | On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems | Godel's Proof
When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought | The Order of Time | Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity | Godel, Escher, Bach | Incompleteness | On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems | Godel's Proof
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. The two walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science in which they had grown up. By 1949, Godel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist. Einstein endorsed this result-reluctantly, since it decisively overthrew the classical world-view to which he was committed. But he could find no way to refute it, and in the half-century since then, neither has anyone else. Even more remarkable than this stunning discovery, however, was what happened afterward: nothing. Cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded with their work as if Godel's proof never existed-one of the greatest scandals of modern intellectual history. A World without Time is a sweeping, ambitious book, and yet poignant and intimate. It tells the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue from undeserved obscurity the brilliant work they did together.
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Paperback
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from Basic Books (February 13, 2006)
9780465092949 | details & prices | 210 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $16.99
About: It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life.
About: It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life.
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