How Math Explains the World by James D. Stein
Contents of How Math Explains the World
- Section I Describing the Universe
- The Measure of All Things
- Reality Checks
- All Things Great and Small
- Section II The Incomplete Toolbox
- Impossible Constructions
- The Hope Diamond of Mathematics
- Never the Twain Shall Meet
- Even Logic Has Limits
- Space and Time Is That All There Is?
- Section III Information The Goldilocks Dilemma
- Murphy’s Law
- The Disorganized Universe
- The Raw Materials
- Section IV The Unattainable Utopia
- Cracks in the Foundation
- The Smoke-Filled Rooms
- Through a Glass Darkly