John L. Casti, Author, J. L. Casti, Author . National Academies/Joseph Henry $22.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-309-08547-2
Mathematician Kurt Gödel, atomic physicist Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein are among the cast of Casti's new novel (after The Cambridge Quintet), a speculative recreation of the debates that took place in the late 1940s at the...
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John L. Casti, Author, J. L. Casti, Author John Wiley & Sons $35 (268p) ISBN 978-0-471-32233-7
The success of Paradigms Lost, Casti's 1989 survey of science's most compelling questions, made this successor and its title nearly inevitable. Unfortunately, the new book fails both as a complement and as a contrast to the earlier work. Like its...
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John L. Casti, Author, J. L. Casti, Author William Morrow & Company $22.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-688-08980-1
The author of Paradigms Lost and Alternative Realities shakes the reputation of mathematics as the irresistible force of scientific exploration in this lively series of lectures on everyday systems (like weather forecasting and the stock market)...
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John L. Casti, Author, J. L. Casti, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (287p) ISBN 978-0-688-16115-6
The success of Paradigms Lost, Casti's 1989 survey of science's most compelling questions, made this successor and its title nearly inevitable. Unfortunately, the new book fails both as a complement and as a contrast to the earlier work. Like its...
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John L. Casti, Author, J. L. Casti, Author William Morrow & Company $22.95 (565p) ISBN 978-0-688-08131-7
Casti draws the reader into current scientific controversies as he weighs the pros and cons of puzzling questions: Did life on earth arise from a ``primordial organic soup''? Can a machine ever duplicate human cognitive processes? How do children...
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John L. Casti, Author, J. L. Casti, Author Quill $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-11914-0
This lively series of lectures on everyday systems (like weather forecasting and the stock market) that refuse to yield to predictability shakes the reputation of mathematics as the irresistible force of scientific exploration. Illustrations. (Sept.)
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John L. Casti, Author, J. L. Casti, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-016888-9
Most books on complexity theory promise to lead the epistemological thrill-seeker far out on the limb of theory. Not so Casti ( Searching for Certainty ). He admits early on to a major ``surprise'' about chaos and other formal systems: that even...
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