Gardner's whys & wherefores
By: Martin Gardner.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Other titles: Gardner's whys and wherefores; Whys & wherefores
Description: "Gardner's Whys and Wherefores includes articles on the puzzles in James Joyce's Ulysses and on the fantasies of Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Lord Dunsany, Gilbert Chesterton, and H. G. Wells. Gardner expresses strong opinions about the "anthropic principle," computer games capable of discovering scientific laws, the philosophy of W. V.

Quine, Marvin Minsky's view of the workings of the mind, the idiosyncracies of social theorist Allan Bloom, the reality of unknown digits that "sleep" in pi, and whether physicists are really on the verge of discovering Everything."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989. With new introd.