Simplicity and Complexity in Games of the Intellect

Lawrence Slobodkin

ISBN 10: 0674808258 ISBN 13: 9780674808256

Editorial: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992

Idioma: Ingl�s

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T�tulo

Simplicity and Complexity in Games of the Intellect

Editor

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

Fecha de publicaci�n

1992

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0674808258

ISBN 13

9780674808256

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

1st Edition

Impresi�n

1st Printing

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Very Good

Peso

2 libras

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"If it were necessary, for some curious legal reason, to draw a clear line between human and nonhuman - for example, if a group of australopithecines were to appear and one had to decide if they were to be protected by Fair Employment Laws or by the ASPCA - I would welcome them as humans if I knew that they were seriously concerned about how to bury their dead". In this way Slobodkin takes us on a spirited quest for the multiple meanings of simplicity in all facets of life. Slobodkin begins at the beginning, with a consideration of how simplicity came into play in the development of religious doctrines. He moves on to the arts - where he ranges freely from dining to painting - and then focuses more sharply on the role of simplicity in science. Here we witness the historical beginnings of modern science as a search for the fewest number of terms, the smallest number of assumptions, or the lowest exponents, while still meeting criteria for descriptive accuracy. The result may be an elegant hypothetical system that generates the apparent world from less apparent assumptions, as with the Newtonian revolution; or it may mean deducing non-obvious processes from everyday facts, as with the Darwinian revolution. Slobodkin proposes that the best intellectual work is done as if it were a game on a simplified playing field. He supplies serious arguments for considering the role of simplification and playfulness in all of our activities.

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This is a timely book. In an age of specialization--a tendency that bewilders most citizens, and in the long run threatens intellectual activity in our civilization--Slobodkin is able to write about the connections between science, art, games, and dining in an important and entertaining way. I think it will be a classic.--Daniel B. Botkin "University of California, Santa Barbara "

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