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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780262542296 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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165 |
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COO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Cook, Matt |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Sleight of mind : 75 ingenious paradoxes in mathematics, physics, and philosophy |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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MIT Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2021 |
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Cambridge : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xii, 350 p. ; |
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ill., |
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23 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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2050.00 |
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INR |
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01 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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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 create the illusion of contradiction. There are no contradictions in reality, but there can appear to be. In Sleight of Mind, Matt Cook and a few collaborators dive deeply into more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, physics, philosophy, and the social sciences. As each paradox is discussed and resolved, Cook helps readers discover the meaning of knowledge and the proper formation of concepts--and how reason can dispel the illusion of contradiction. The journey begins with "a most ingenious paradox" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. Readers will then travel from Ancient Greece to cutting-edge laboratories, encounter infinity and its different sizes, and discover mathematical impossibilities inherent in elections. They will tackle conundrums in probability, induction, geometry, and game theory; perform "supertasks"; build apparent perpetual motion machines; meet twins living in different millennia; explore the strange quantum world--and much more. |
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Mathematical physics |
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Braintwisting |
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Magic trick |
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Illusion of contradiction |
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Knowledge |
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Concept formation |
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Educational work |
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Books |