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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: In his final years, Albert Einstein developed an unexpected friendship with the young, brilliant, noted logician named Kurt Gödel.
Chapter 3: Gödel used Einstein’s theory of relativity to argue that time cannot exist.
Chapter 4: Numbers possess their own music — and we’ve evolved a special ear for it.
Chapter 5: Pure mathematics is about beauty more than usefulness.
Chapter 6: Infinity doesn’t appear in only one size.
Chapter 7: After pioneering modern computing, Alan Turing died under mysterious, unresolved circumstances.
Chapter 8: String theory may explain everything — or nothing at all.
Chapter 9: Physics offers clues about the way it will all finally end.
Description
When Einstein Walked with Gödel (2018) is an excursion through both the fabric of our reality and the limits of scientific imagination. Combining math and physics with history and philosophy, it sheds light on some of the most important scientific theories of the last three centuries – and examines the turbulent lives of the geniuses who conceived them.
Who Should Listen
- Laypeople who’d like to understand more about math and physics
- Critical thinkers interested in the history and philosophy of science
- Anyone who’d like to leave a big impression at their next cocktail party