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Nonfiction Title:
The Night is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995 • nonfiction by
Martin Gardner
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- bp • The Edge of the World • interior artwork by Sidney H. Sime [as by S. H. Sime]
- xvii • Introduction (The Night is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995) • (1995) • essay by Martin Gardner
- 1 • Part I: Physical Science • essay by Martin Gardner
- 3 • Fearful Symmetry • essay by Martin Gardner
- 5 • Some Ambigram Inversions • interior artwork by John Langdon
- 7 • The Symmetry of a Splash • (1935) • interior artwork by Harold Eugene Edgerton
- 11 • Plane Filling Motif with Reptiles • (1941) • interior artwork by M. C. Escher
- 13 • The Twin Paradox • essay by Martin Gardner
- 22 • Quantum Weirdness • essay by Martin Gardner
- 32 • The Computer as Scientist • essay by Martin Gardner
- 40 • WAP, SAP, PAP, and FAP • essay by Martin Gardner
- 50 • Infinity and Information • essay by Martin Gardner
- 59 • Can Time Stop? The Past Change? • essay by Martin Gardner
- 68 • Werner Heisenberg • essay by Martin Gardner
- 78 • Superstrings • essay by Martin Gardner
- 92 • The Ultimate Turtle • essay by Martin Gardner
- 103 • Part II: Social Science • essay by Martin Gardner
- 105 • Why I am Not a Smithian • essay by Martin Gardner
- 127 • The Laffer Curve • essay by Martin Gardner
- 140 • H. G. Wells in Russia • essay by Martin Gardner
- 149 • Beyond Cultural Relativism • essay by Martin Gardner
- 162 • Klingon and Other Artificial Languages • essay by Martin Gardner
- 171 • Part III: Pseudoscience • essay by Martin Gardner
- 173 • Pseudoscience in the Nineteenth Century • essay by Martin Gardner
- 183 • The Irrelevance of Conan Doyle • essay by Martin Gardner
- 193 • Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone • essay by Martin Gardner
- 207 • Freud, Fleiss, and Emma's Nose • essay by Martin Gardner
- 213 • William James and Mrs. Piper • essay by Martin Gardner
- 244 • Close Encounters of the Third Kind • essay by Martin Gardner
- 255 • Part IV: Mathematics • essay by Martin Gardner
- 257 • Mathematics and the Folkways • essay by Martin Gardner
- 271 • Mr. Apollinax Visits New York • essay by Martin Gardner
- 280 • How Not to Talk About Mathematics • essay by Martin Gardner
- 295 • Part V: The Arts • essay by Martin Gardner
- 297 • Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner • essay by Martin Gardner
- 318 • Lewis Carroll and His Alice Books • essay by Martin Gardner
- 328 • The Royal Historian of Oz • (1955) • essay by Martin Gardner
- 348 • Georges Perec • essay by Martin Gardner
- 358 • Puzzles in Ulysses • essay by Martin Gardner
- 368 • Who Was Shakespeare? • essay by Martin Gardner
- 375 • White, Brown and Fractal Music • essay by Martin Gardner
- 380 • Mandelbrot's Peano-Snowflake • (1978) • interior artwork by Sigmund Handelman and Mark Laff
- 395 • Part VI: Philosophy • essay by Martin Gardner
- 397 • The Significance of "Nothing" • essay by Martin Gardner
- 412 • Newcomb's Paradox • essay by Martin Gardner
- 421 • Is "Realism" a Dirty Word? • essay by Martin Gardner
- 427 • The Mystery of Free Will • essay by Martin Gardner
- 442 • Computers Near the Threshold? • essay by Martin Gardner
- 450 • The Curious Mind of Allan Bloom • essay by Martin Gardner
- 457 • Isiah Berlin: Fox or Hedgehog? • essay by Martin Gardner
- 464 • Why I am Not a Pragmatist • essay by Martin Gardner
- 481 • Gardner's Whys • essay by Martin Gardner
- 488 • The Popperism of Sir Karl • essay by Martin Gardner
- 491 • W. V. Quine • essay by Martin Gardner
- 495 • The Irrelevance of "Everything" • essay by Martin Gardner
- 507 • Part VII: Religion • essay by Martin Gardner
- 509 • The Strange Case of Robert Maynard Hutchins • essay by Martin Gardner
- 525 • The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming • essay by Martin Gardner
- 533 • Proofs of God • essay by Martin Gardner
- 551 • Surprise • essay by Martin Gardner
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