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Author:   Anthony Aguirre ,  Brendan Foster ,  Zeeya Merali
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   5.148kg
ISBN:  

9783319274942

ISBN 10:   3319274945
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   02 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Children of the cosmos (S. Wenmackers).- Mathematics is Physics (M. S. Leifer).- My god, it's full of clones: Living in a mathematical universe (M. Séguin).- Let's consider two spherical chickens (T. Bolognesi).- The raven and the writing desk (I. Durham).- The deeper roles of mathematics in physical laws (K. H. Knuth).- How mathematics meets the world (T. Maudlin).- Mathematics: intuition's consistency check (K. Wharton).- How not to factor a miracle (D. K. Wise).- The language of nature (D. Garfinkle).- Demystifying the applicability of mathematics (N. Fillion).- Why mathematics works so well (N. S. Yanofsky).- Genesis of a pythagorean universe (A. Burov).- Beyond math (S. Magnusdottir).- The descent of math (S. I. Walker).- The ultimate tactics of self-referential systems (C. C. Dantas).- Cognitive science and the connection between physics and mathematics (A. Gupta Mujumdar).- A metaphorical chart of our mathematicalontology (P. Gibbs).-And the math will set you free (C. Stoica).- Appendix: List of winners.

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The entries were rigorously judged and this book is a collection of the best entries. ... the content is accessible to the general, albeit knowledgeable, reader. These essays are very well written. The result is a great book in the philosophy of science, the relationship between the human brain and its ability to abstract to the way the universe runs as a consequence of the values of the fundamental constants of physics. (Charles Ashbacher, MAA Reviews, maa.org, August, 2016)

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