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on1104853635 |
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OCoLC |
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20210810084104.0 |
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190324s2020 maua b 001 0 eng |
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2019013954 |
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DLC |
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eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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1119437411 |
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1182022672 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780262043465 |
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hardcover |
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alkaline paper |
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0262043467 |
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hardcover |
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alkaline paper |
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9780262542296 |
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(softcover) |
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0262542293 |
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(softcover) |
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(OCoLC)1104853635 |
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(OCoLC)1119437411 |
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(OCoLC)1182022672 |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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pcc |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
165 |
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C771 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cook, Matt |
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(Matthew), |
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author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Sleight of mind : |
| Remainder of title |
75 ingenious paradoxes in mathematics, physics, and philosophy / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Matt Cook. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cambridge, Massachusetts: |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
The MIT Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2020] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xii, 350 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
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24 cm |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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still image |
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sti |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Infinity -- Zeno's paradoxes of motion -- Supertasks -- Probability -- Social choice -- Game theory -- Self-reference -- Induction -- Geometry -- Operations -- Classical physics / Nicholas Laurita -- Special relativity / Aidan Chatwin-Davies -- Quantum mechanics / Michael Coughlin, Matt Cook, and Aidan Chatwin-Davies -- Invented or discovered? |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"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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Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Paradox. |
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250493 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Mathematical physics. |
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140243 |
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Instructional and educational works. |
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lcgft |
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296635 |
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Illustrated works. |
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lcgft |
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4636 |
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