WHEN EINSTEIN WALKED WITH GÖDEL

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of T hought.Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collectio n, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers whove tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his tradema rk clarit...[Leer más]