Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?

Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscience Topics

W W Norton & Co Ltd (Jul 2003)

1st edition

0393057429

| Hardcover

288 pages | 163 x 241 mm | English

€ 14.00 | Value: € 2.22

Dewey 510

LC Classification QA99 .G37 2003

LC Control No. 2003001412

Genre

Science & Nature

Subject

Mathematics
Mathematics/ Miscellanea
Pseudoscience
Science
Science/ Miscellanea

Plot

Martin Gardner, debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery, explores in this title startling scientific concepts, such as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backwards. Armed with his expert, sceptical eye, he examines the bizarre tangents produced by Freudians and deconstructionists in their critiques of Little Red Riding Hood and reveals the fallacies of pseudoscientific cures, from Doctor Bruno Bettelheim's erroneous theory of autism to the cruel farces of Facilitated Communication and Primal Scream Therapy.