A doubter's almanac : a novel /
"Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a Ph. D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of...
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New York :
Random House,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Induction. A late arrival ; Impossible ; Welcome to the world ; Singularity theory
- Deduction. Nature never lies ; poets ; The Newton of North Oakland ; Devil's fork ; The orrery ; China white
- Contraposition. Fine Hall ; Occam's razor ; Rise over run ; Dogs and horses ; Another roof, another proof ; Time and chance ; You can't comb the hair on a coconut ; Regression to the mean ; Welcome to the future ; Order of operations ; Transire Suum Pectus ; Ant on a rubber rope ; Reductio ad Impossibilem ; A Scandinavian weed ; Discovery ; Inventory
- Restatement. I confess ; Volatility smile ; The great war of the calculus ; Professor Gamble ; Nunquam Cede ; Scrivener's errors
- Conjecture. The tristate singularity ; Flatland ; A marrow lover's feast ; A nonconforming interval ; The reluctant Cartesian ; The real are almost all irrational ; Thomson's lamp ; Disciplina in Civitatem ; Molly and Sally
- Summation. Salads ; Non-Brownian gray ; Analysis Situs
- Proof. Drunkard's walk ; Alpha ; A topologist's apology ; The prisoner's dilemma ; Theodicy ; The expected teaches nothing ; Easy does it ; The truth at last ; Brompton's mixture ; The sum of infinitesimals ; The witch of Agnesi ; A unifying conjecture ; Contra Deum ; The Lord's daughter ; Proof by exhaustion ; 4656534 ; The curse of knowledge ; Mysterium Cosmographicum ; Drake ; The Battle of Trafalgar.
