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Title: Clock Mirage, The: Our Myth of Measured Time
Author: MAZUR JOSEPH
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/06/2020
Imprint: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $49.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
Mazur opens an intellectual Pandora’s Box and marvels fly out. Our familiarity with time misleads us into thinking it is simple, when it is paradoxical, elusive, and counterintuitive. Highly enjoyable and informative.—Ian Stewart, author of Do Dice Play God?
A sweeping story in search of answers to a tantalizing mystery: what is time? Mazur offers an astonishing array of ideas, interviews and exposition, exploring time from many fascinating viewpoints.—Robyn Arianrhod, author of Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science
Mazur has an uncanny ability to engage both a scientific and lay audience through an intertwining of mathematics with tender considerations of humanity, affectingly guiding us to consider our own mortality: the clock winding down within each of us.—Kia Corthron, playwright and author of The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
A journey of discovery in which Mazur, wise in the ways of the wild, invites us to see the edges of the known. This powerful investigation combines formidable research, mathematical expertise, and profound contemplations.—William Goldbloom Bloch, author of The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges’ Library of Babel
An expansive meditation on the meanings of time. As masterful teacher and earnest fellow traveler, Mazur leads us with heartfelt compassion, philosophical musings, and clear mathematical explanations, to find ourselves at the heart of it all.—Gizem Karaali, Editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
ISBN: 9780300229325
Pages: 272