Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic - Couverture rigide

Gardner, Martin

 
9781573920964: Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1573920967 ISBN 13 : 9781573920964
Editeur : Prometheus Books, 1996

Synopsis

At a time when popular knowledge of basic science has sunk to a new low and books promoting angels, parapsychology, and bizarre forms of medicine and healing outnumber skeptical books by more than a thousand to one, Americans need a voice of sanity.

Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic introduces readers to mind-wrenching probability paradoxes, recent attacks on the Big Bang Theory, and Marianne Williamson's success promoting The Course of Miracles, which is said to have been channeled by Jesus. Other columns address E-prime, a language that omits all forms of the verb "to be"; Norman Vincent Peale's beliefs in the paranormal; repressed memory therapy; science blunders by famous writers; the influence of Transcendental Meditation on the career of Doug Henning; a critique of "Klingon" and other artificial languages; and much more.

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À propos de l?auteur

Martin Gardner (1914 - 2010), the creator of Scientific American’s "Mathematical Games" column, which he wrote for more than twenty-five years, was the author of almost one hundred books, including The Annotated Night Before Christmas, The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner’s Favorite Poetic Parodies, From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr., and Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. For many years he was also a contributing editor to the Skeptical Inquirer.

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Éditeur
Prometheus Books
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1573920967
ISBN 13 
9781573920964
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
260
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Personne responsable
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