Labyrinths of Reason (44 page)

WILLIAM POUNDSTONE

William Poundstone studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of
The Recursive Universe
, about information theory and physics, and
Labyrinths of Reason
, an exploration of paradox in science. He is also known as the author of such popular books as
Big Secrets
, and
The Ultimate
and of articles for
Esquire
,
Harper’s
,
The Believer
, and other periodicals. He lives in Los Angeles.

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 1990

Copyright © 1988 by William Poundstone

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Anchor Books in 1988.

Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The illustration on is reproduced by permission of the Beinecke Rare Book
      and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

The quotations, are from
Labyrinths
by Jorge Luis Borges.
      Copyright © 1962, 1964 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.

The quotation is from
Other Inquisitions: 1937–1952
by Jorge Luis
      Borges, translated by Ruth L. C. Simms, and Copyright © 1964
      by the University of Texas Press.

The figure is from
Scientific and Engineering Problem-Solving
      with the Computer
by W. R. Bennett, Jr., © 1976, Reprinted
      by permission of Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

This book was previously published in hardcover in 1988
by Anchor Books, an imprint of Doubleday.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Poundstone, William.
      Labyrinths of reason.

      I. Science—Philosophy. 2. Paradox. I. Title.
Q175.P8816 1988 501 88-7066

eISBN: 978-0-307-76379-2

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