A World Without Time: The Forgotton Legacy Of Godel And Einstein: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein - Rilegato

Yourgrau, Palle

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ISBN 10: 0465092934 ISBN 13: 9780465092932

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2005

Riassunto

For 15 years two men, one made like a rapier, the other looking like a pile of laundry, walked together to their respective homes through the Princeton campus, talking as only consummate academics can. In his last years on earth, Einstein would go to his office just to have these walks home. Perhaps he could see a future in which Gödel, the rapier and the world's greatest logician, would run out of time and leave this planet weighing, by his own choice, only 65 pounds. In their walks Gödel concluded that time, which Einstein showed not to exist on theoretical worlds, did not exist in this one either. Yourgrau (philosophy, Brandeis U.) explains the time they had together, and how Gödel's resulting paper on this crucial aspect of relativity has fared amongst physicists and philosophers. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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L'autore:

Palle Yourgrau is a Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University. His 1999 monograph Gödel Meets Einstein, the only book-length work on Gödel's cosmological ideas, has caused a resurgence of interest among philosophers in Gödel's ideas about time and relativity. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Book by Yourgrau Palle

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• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0465092934
• ISBN 13: 9780465092932
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 210