Book tips - Paradoxes
Paradoxes
We encounter contradictions almost every day: in everyday life, at work, in the media. Thinking traps are sometimes difficult to recognize. Inevitably, we fall for them and sometimes make the wrong decisions. Paradoxes are phenomena whose apparent contradictions fascinate us and inspire us to deal intensively with the solution of the riddles. Often this requires logical and mathematical skills. We also encounter paradoxes in philosophy, in metaphysics, when we deal with the inexplicable, such as the beginning of time or the infinity of the universe. In computer science, for example, anomalies in databases pose puzzles. This time we present a collection of such paradoxes: Books show which thinking traps you can fall into and how aha experiences occur when you recognize the previously unknown context of meaning.
" The same leaves us alone, but it is the contradiction that makes us productive. " -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: E-3 Magazine - Issue December/January 2016
Paradoxes
Which came first, hen or egg? Such seemingly irresolvable contradictions, so-called paradoxes, are an integral part of science and philosophy, as well as of our everyday life. Strictly speaking, they are even a central prerequisite for many forms of progress in knowledge in the history of mankind. Paradoxes force us to question the premises of our reasoning and, if necessary, subject them to rigorous scrutiny. Yet most people fear these seemingly inconclusive lines of thought.
An Endless Braided Ribbon
The cult book of computer culture has made its author famous overnight. The enigmatic work is now in its 20th edition. Ultimately, everything revolves around the question: How can self-aware, animate beings arise from an unconscious, inanimate matter? This intelligent, brilliant non-fiction book by a serious computer scientist is at once a subtle and witty work of art on both a superficial and cryptic level.
Paradoxes
Paradoxes reveals just how strange things can look in the world of thought. In eight chapters, this book takes you on a breathtaking journey. You will encounter things that defy all intuition or even border on the absurd. Paradoxes contains a wealth of thought experiments, practical examples, and practice exercises, and you'll learn about some of the big names who have dealt with paradoxes, from ancient Greek philosophers to Albert Einstein.
The downfall of Mathemagika
In the fantastic kingdom of Mathemagika, friends Prof and Dio experience an adventurous story about the mysterious disappearance of a minister, an enchanting princess - and one of the craziest theorems in mathematics: the Banach-Tarski paradox. It claims, for example, that a sphere the size of a pea can be rebuilt into a sphere the size of a sun in a finite number of parts. Impossible?
The last riddles of mathematics
They are the truly intractable nuts that Stewart talks about in his new book. They are mathematical puzzles that the most abstract minds have been gnashing their teeth at for decades, centuries or even millennia, the great mathematical problems that anyone interested in mathematics has heard of, whether it's Goldbach's, squaring the circle or the three-body problem.
