Simplicity and complexity in games of the intellect
- Title
- Simplicity and complexity in games of the intellect / Lawrence B. Slobodkin.
- Published by
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 266 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- Sense, sensibility and self -- the peculiar humanity of stories; simplifying religious revolutions -- the birth of doctrine; the great intellectual playing field -- in praise of games; three dinner parties; a matter of taste -- minimalism and the world of art; to science is human -- factual pleasures; explaining the whole universe -- motion, velocity and direction; explaining the rest of the universe -- Darwinian insight; virtue and the simple life; masters of reality.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.