Rebecca Goldstein, Author . Norton/Atlas $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-05169-8
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, which proved that no formal mathematical system can demonstrate every mathematical truth, is a landmark of modern thought. It's a simple but profound statement, but the technicalities of Gödel's...
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Rebecca Goldstein, Author . Nextbook/Schocken $19.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4209-6
This biography of 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) may seem out of place in the Jewish Encounters series, devoted to Jewish thinkers and themes, because Spinoza denied the importance of Jewish identity, and Amsterdam's...
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Rebecca Goldstein, Author Penguin Books $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-017245-4
Goldstein's The Dark Sister is a cleverly constructed, imaginative tale that centers on a tormented feminist novelist whose solitude is interrupted only by phone calls from her silly but dangerous sister; March will also bring Penguin's reissue of...
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Rebecca Goldstein, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-18406-3
The author of The Mind-Body Problem , whose nimble portrait of a yeshiva girl-turned-Ivy League philosophy graduate student was astutely authentic, is on shakier ground here with a German emigre protagonist, the daughter of a Nazi, who is a...
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Rebecca Goldstein, Author Viking Books $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-85648-0
One expects provocative fiction from Goldstein (The Mind-Body Problem), a quality amply fulfilled in her third novel,which is also her most accessible and beguiling. She has not, however, abandoned her philosophical turn of mind: the central...
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Rebecca Goldstein, Author Penguin Books $12.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-14-023905-8
Former philosopher Goldstein's latest novel looks at the twists of fate provided by chance in three generations of a Jewish family. (Sept.)
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Rebecca Goldstein, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-395-98659-2
Putting her Ph.D. in the philosophy of science to good use, Goldstein (The Mind-Body Problem) chronicles the quest of three physicists seeking to reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity theory in this epistemological gothic romance. It's soon...
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Rebecca Goldstein, Author Viking Books $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-83556-0
Goldstein ( The Mind-Body Problem ; The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind ) has cleverly constructed a highly imaginative tale that commands close analysis. Hedda, a grotesque, tormented author of angry feminist novels, has exiled herself to a...
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Rebecca Goldstein, Author Viking Books $21 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-84640-5
Nine somewhat cumbersome short stories continue the philosophical musings earlier sounded in Goldstein's novels The Dark Sister and The Mind-Body Problem (see Paperback Forecasts this issue). Here, a predominantly intellectual cast explores the...
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Pantheon, $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-307-37819-4
Novelist and philosopher Goldstein (The Mind-Body Problem) has an imaginative conceit: to bring Plato into the 21st century by having him go on an American book tour. Here, Plato hauls around a Google Chrome computer, generally finds modern...
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