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Table of Contents: “…Wave-particle duality -- Cavity quantum electrodynamics -- Quantum nondemolition measurements -- Topological phases -- Macroscopic quantum coherence -- The quantum Zeno paradox -- Testing collapse -- Macroscopic quantum jumps -- Nonlocality -- Tunneling times.…”

Table of Contents: “…Puzzles and paradoxes. Zeno's paradoxes -- Metaphysical and epistemological puzzles and paradoxes -- Puzzles of rational choice -- Paradoxes of logic, set theory, and semantics.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Anaximander and the riddle of origin -- Pythagoras's search for the common denominator -- Parmenides on what is not -- Sisyphus's rock and Zeno's paradoxes -- Socrates: the paradox of inquiry -- The Megarian identity crisis -- Eubulides and the politics of the liar -- A footnote to "Plato" -- Aristotle on fatalism -- Chrysippus on people parts -- Sextus Empiricus and the infinite regress of justification -- Augustine's pragmatic paradoxes -- Aquinas: can God have a biography? …”

Table of Contents: “…The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics -- Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit -- The mystical mathematics of Hypatia -- The Islamic world and the development of algebra -- Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations -- René Descartes and the idea of coordinates -- Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus -- The great Isaac Newton -- The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics -- Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem -- Cauchy and the foundations of analysis -- The prime numbers -- Dirichlet and how to count -- Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces -- Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity -- The number systems -- Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon -- Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics -- Emmy Noether and algebra -- Methods of proof -- Alan Turing and cryptography.…”

Table of Contents: “…Peering through the eyepiece of randomness: the hidden role of chance . . . when human beings can be outperformed by a rat -- The laws of truths and half-truths: the basic principles of probability and how they are abused . . . why a good story is often less likely to be true than a flimsy explanation -- Finding your way through a space of possibilities: a framework for thinking about random situations . . . from a gambler in plague-ridden Italy to Let's Make a Deal -- Tracking the pathways to success: how to count the number of ways in which events can happen, and why it matters . . . the mathematical meaning of expectation -- The dueling laws of large and small numbers: the extent to which probabilities are reflected in the results we observe . . . Zeno's paradox, the concept of limits, and beating the casino at roulette -- False positives and positive fallacies: how to adjust expectations in light of past events or new knowledge . . . mistakes in conditional probability from medical screening to the O. …”

Table of Contents: “…The philosophy of being -- The philosophy of becoming -- Einstein, time, and the fourth dimension -- The structure of the book -- 2. Zeno's paradoxes and the nature of change. Introduction: what is time? …”

Table of Contents: “…Berteval -- The Principle of Relativity and the Spatialization of Time / Olivier Costa de Beauregard -- Bergson and Zeno's Paradoxes -- Time and Zeno's Arrow / Vere C. Chappell -- Henri Bergson and the Epochal Theory of Time / David A. …”

Table of Contents: “…Vol. 3. 1) The Simpsons - Marge in Chains (Trial) -- 2) The Simpsons - Bart Gets Hit By a Car (Ethics, negotiation) -- 3) Harry Potter (Choices) -- 4) The Verdict (Role) -- 5) The Verdict (Defense Case Meeting) -- 6) The Verdict (Defendant witness preparation) -- 7) All the President's Men - Segretti (Ethics) -- 8) NYPD Blue (Case theory) -- 9) All of Me (Interviewing) -- 10) All of Me (Role) -- 11) The Simpsons - Marge's Job (Negotiation, role) -- 12) The Simpsons - All You Can Eat (Trial, negotiation) -- 13) IQ (Zeno's paradox) -- 14) Z (Fact investigation -- 15) Philadelphia (Interviews -- 16) Philadelphia (Library) -- 17) Philadelphia (Opening statements) -- 18) Philadelphia (Direct examination) -- 19) Philadelphia (Jury) -- 20) Runaway Jury (Jury consultant and selection). …”

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: PARADOXES -- 1 The Paradox of the Many: Post-Structuralism and Zeno -- Zeno's Paradox of Plurality -- Post-Structuralism and the Paradox of Plurality -- Derrida and Multiplicity -- Different Kinds of Differences? …”
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