Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy by Matt Cook

Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy

Matt Cook

368 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative medium-paced

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Exploring more than seventy-five well-known paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences showing how reason and logic can dispel the illusion of contradiction.Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's p...

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