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Author Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.

Title Are universes thicker than blackberries? : discourses on Gödel, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and other mathematical and pseudoscientific topics / by Martin Gardner.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  510 G167    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  510 GARDNER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Science. Multiverses and blackberries -- Skeptical look at Karl Popper -- Rudolf Carnap, philosopher of science -- Some thoughts about induction -- Can time go backward? -- Mathematics. Against the odds (a story) -- Fun with Mobius bands -- Is mathematics "out there"? -- Ian Stewart's Flatterland -- Kurt Godel's amazing discovery -- New results on magic hexagrams -- Religion. Strange case of Garry Wills -- Mad messiahs -- Oahspe -- Vagueness of Krishnamurti -- Literature. Chesterton's The man who was Thursday -- Ernest Hemingway and Jane -- Three parodies of famous poems -- Edgar Wallace and The green archer -- Afterword to The green archer -- Tin woodman of Oz -- Moonshine. Little red riding hood -- Brutality of Dr. Bettelheim -- Facilitated communication : a cruel farce -- Distant healing and Elisabeth Targ -- Therapeutic touch -- Primal scream therapy -- Eyeless vision -- Magic and Psi -- How Mrs. Piper bamboozled William James -- "Dr." Henry Slade, American medium.
Subject Mathematics -- Miscellanea.
Science -- Miscellanea.
Pseudoscience.
ISBN 0393057429 hardcover
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