Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science
Language: English
Published by Wiley, 2004
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- Title
- Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science
- Author
- Dewdney, A. K.
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Includes dust jacket.
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0471013986
- ISBN 13
- 9780471013983
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Are some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason, internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers this question by examining eight insurmountable mathematical and scientific roadblocks that have stumped thinkers across the centuries, from ancient mathematical conundrums such as "squaring the circle," first attempted by the Pythagoreans, to G?del's vexing theorem, from perpetual motion to the upredictable behavior of chaotic systems such as the weather.
A. K. Dewdney, PhD (Ontario, Canada), was the author of Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" column for eight years. He has written several critically acclaimed popular math and science books, including A Mathematical Mystery Tour (0-471-40734-8); Yes, We Have No Neutrons (0-471-29586-8); and 200% of Nothing (0-471-14574-2).
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About the Author
A.K. DEWDNEY, PH.D., is the author of several critically acclaimed math and science books, including A Mathematical Mystery Tour; Yes, We have No Neutrons; and 200% of Nothing, all from Wiley. He was a member of the computer science department at the University of Western Ontario and at the University of Waterloo for a combined period of thirty years before retiring. In 1996, he became an adjunct professor of biology at UWO. For eight years, Dewdney was the Computer Recreations columnist for Scientific American magazine.
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