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What the Bleep Do We Know!?™: Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality
by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente, and Jack Forem
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Do you want to take a trip down the rabbit hole? Get ready, because that's exactly what you'll do when you open this book! Never before has a book so dramatically altered the status quoor reality for that matter. With a genre-busting break-through format and layout, the graphics, colors and characters compel readers to ask themselves Great Questions that will recreate their lives as they know them. With the help of fourteen leading quantum physicists, scientist and spiritual thinkers, this book guide readers on a course from the scientific to the spiritual, and from the universal to the deeply personal. Along the way, it asks such questions as: Are we seeing the world as it really is? What are thoughts made of? What is the relationship between our thoughts and our world? Are we biologically addicted to certain emotions? How can I create my day every day? The answer to the last question is a resounding yes: you are an infinite set of possibilities, and you can choose every day which reality you want to create for yourself. This book shows you how. authors Will Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente transformed the movie world with their independent smash hit What the Bleep Do We Know?! Now they've brought their intelligent mix of science, spirituality and incredible graphics and storytelling to the printed page. The book features all new interviews with experts, relevant issues cut from the movie, deeper explanations of some of the more complex and important theories, and commentary from the authors about how these concepts transformed their personal lives for the better.
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William Arntz, a research physicist and spiritual seeker, created one of the worlds most widely used pieces of software. He retired and became interested in uniting his four great passions: leading edge science, spiritual inquiry, filmmaking and computers. Betsy Chasse freelanced as a Production Manager on over thirty films and produced eight movies before deciding that she wanted to move away from Los Angeles and do something more meaningful with her life. Mark Vicente is a cinematographer turned director with a special interest in mysterious, reflective and unusual subject matter.
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On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
by Kurt Gödel
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First English translation of revolutionary paper (1931) that established that even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which cannot be proved or disproved within the system. It is thus uncertain that the basic axioms of arithmetic will not give rise to contradictions. Introduction by R. B. Braithwaite.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
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Mathematica Navigator: Mathematics, Statistics, and Graphics, Second Edition
by Heikki Ruskeepaa
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"Totally indispensabe. Run, do not walk, to get your copy."
-Robert M. Lurie, MIT for iJournals
"is a gem of clarity and concise applicationIf the book has any failings, it is in leaving the reader begging for more."
-Scientific Computing and Instrumentation
"This is an excellent reference book that I would recommend to anyone who isa serious user of Mathematica."
- Bill Emerson, Metropolitan State University
"There is a great need for this book. The outstanding featureis the great variety of Mathematica programs."
- Mike Mesterton-Gibbons, Florida State University
"does a fantastic job at introducing Mathematica for the applied scientist. The book's use of Mathematica is slick, intelligent and comprehensive."
- Joaquin Carbonara, Buffalo State University
"Mathematica Navigator is packed with excellent examplesan invaluable companion to any textbook for most Mathematica-enriched courses."
- Fred Szabo, Concordia University
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Bill Emerson of Metropolitan State University says:
"I think that this is a superb reference that would be of interest to faculty, serious users
of Mathematica, and, potentially, mathematics undergraduate or graduate students. I
am particularly impressed by the organization which allows a mathematician to
approach Mathematica by specific mathematical topics rather than using the
organization of Wolfram's Mathematica Book. In addition, I find that the text is clearly
written and the examples are well-chosen."
November 2002
Joaquin Carbonara from Buffalo State says:
The book use of Mathematica is slick, intelligent and comprehensive. It emphasizes
Mathematica’s strengths, and does it in the best possible way.
November 2002
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel. It also looks at the prospects for computers and artificial intelligence (AI) for mimicking human thought. For the general reader and the computer techie alike, this book still sets a standard for thinking about the future of computers and their relation to the way we think. Hofstadter's great achievement in Gödel, Escher, Bach was making abstruse mathematical topics (like undecidability, recursion, and 'strange loops') accessible and remarkably entertaining. Borrowing a page from Lewis Carroll (who might well have been a fan of this book), each chapter presents dialogue between the Tortoise and Achilles, as well as other characters who dramatize concepts discussed later in more detail. Allusions to Bach's music (centering on his Musical Offering) and Escher's continually paradoxical artwork are plentiful here. This more approachable material lets the author delve into serious number theory (concentrating on the ramifications of Gödel's Theorem of Incompleteness) while stopping along the way to ponder the work of a host of other mathematicians, artists, and thinkers. The world has moved on since 1979, of course. The book predicted that computers probably won't ever beat humans in chess, though Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997. And the vinyl record, which serves for some of Hofstadter's best analogies, is now left to collectors. Sections on recursion and the graphs of certain functions from physics look tantalizing, like the fractals of recent chaos theory. And AI has moved on, of course, with mixed results. Yet Gödel, Escher, Bach remains a remarkable achievement. Its intellectual range and ability to let us visualize difficult mathematical concepts help make it one of this century's best for anyone who's interested in computers and their potential for real intelligence. --Richard Dragan Topics Covered: J.S. Bach, M.C. Escher, Kurt Gödel: biographical information and work, artificial intelligence (AI) history and theories, strange loops and tangled hierarchies, formal and informal systems, number theory, form in mathematics, figure and ground, consistency, completeness, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, recursive structures, theories of meaning, propositional calculus, typographical number theory, Zen and mathematics, levels of description and computers; theory of mind: neurons, minds and thoughts; undecidability; self-reference and self-representation; Turing test for machine intelligence.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.
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Fantasia Mathematica
by Clifton Fadiman
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Scientific American
this anthology of mathematically oriented short stories and poems should delight a new generation of readers.
New Scientist
Math can be a more rewarding source of fun and laughter than I thought possible.
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Computational Financial Mathematics using Mathematica
by Srdjan Stojanovic
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CO-PUBLISHED WITH TELOS This book provides a beautiful overview of what mathematics and MATHEMATICA¿ can do for finance. Sophisticated theories are presented in a rigorous but user-friendly, practical style, which, with the programming capabilities of MATHEMATICA, help the reader develop good intuition in real trading. Key features: Entire book is on cross-platform CD written in MATHEMATICA * quick introduction to MATHEMATICA provided * minimal prerequisites: good understanding of calculus and some differential equations * a highly original presentation of optimal portfolio diversification. The book is designed for instructors and students, and most importantly, will meet the everyday trading needs of the professional¿the analytically inclined individual investor who wants to solve various problems encountered when investing and trading in stocks and stock options.
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A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
by Karen Armstrong
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Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascinating quests of all time--the search for God. Like all beloved historians, Armstrong entertains us with deft storytelling, astounding research, and makes us feel a greater appreciation for the present because we better understand our past. Be warned: A history of God is not a tidy linear history. Rather, we learn that the definition of God is constantly being repeated, altered, discarded, and resurrected through the ages, responding to its followers' practical concerns rather than to mystical mandates. Armstrong also shows us how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have overlapped and influenced one another, gently challenging the secularist history of each of these religions. --Gail Hudson
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This searching, profound comparative history of the three major monotheistic faiths fearlessly illuminates the sociopolitical ground in which religious ideas take root, blossom and mutate. Armstrong, a British broadcaster, commentator on religious affairs and former Roman Catholic nun, argues that Judaism, Christianity and Islam each developed the idea of a personal God, which has helped believers to mature as full human beings. Yet Armstrong also acknowledges that the idea of a personal God can be dangerous, encouraging us to judge, condemn and marginalize others. Recognizing this, each of the three monotheisms, in their different ways, developed a mystical tradition grounded in a realization that our human idea of God is merely a symbol of an ineffable reality. To Armstrong, modern, aggressively righteous fundamentalists of all three faiths represent "a retreat from God." She views as inevitable a move away from the idea of a personal God who behaves like a larger version of ourselves, and welcomes the grouping of believers toward a notion of God that "works for us in the empirical age." 25,000 first printing; BOMC alternate.
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief history of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton
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