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Author : Burkley Orion Smith
Publisher : Independently Published
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Release : 2022-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798362918545

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Uploaded - The Infinity Construct, Book I by Burkley Orion Smith Pdf

Sabashton 'Ash' Jackson is a hard working kid from the streets who's just trying to survive the grind while he works two jobs to pay for college. Or at least he was until some lunatic sets off the apocalypse and he wakes up in the Infinity Construct, a magic based virtual reality game that feels indistinguishable from the real world. Now, he's not even sure he's still human; He might be turning into a god. After meeting the mysterious 'Doc' in digital limbo, and learning he's the only freaking person from earth that remembers what happened, Ash is gifted a magical avatar with the potential for awesome power. In return he's tasked with the simple chore of saving humanity by stopping the Corruptor himself from permanently enslaving the last of mankind. Meanwhile back on earth, unbeknownst to our reluctant hero, two unknown allies band together to try and pull off an impossible mission that just may be the last hope to keep Ash from falling into the Corruptor's evil trap. "THE must read LitRPG and Gamelit novel of the year." "All the details I could want without being overwhelmed with page after page of stats. This is the book I've been waiting for." "Ash is hilarious. He's so deep over his head. Thank God Tash is there to keep him on track. Love the cast, and oh what a world. Somebody Upload me please."

Author : M. R. Carey
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316504560

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Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey Pdf

From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion across millions of dimensions—and the AI technology that might see it all come to an end. "A fascinating window onto a dangerous and multifaceted universe.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds. Except that they’re really just one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an A.I. threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they’ll eradicate it by whatever means necessary. Scientist Hadiz Tambuwal is looking for a solution to her own Earth’s environmental collapse when she stumbles across the secret of inter-dimensional travel, a secret that could save everyone on her dying planet. It leads her into the middle of a war on a scale she never dreamed of. And she needs to choose a side before every reality pays the price. "A genuine treat for SF fans: an epic multiverse tale that moves like a thriller." —Kirkus (starred review) "Readers will be wowed." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Infinity Gate, with its in-depth science and rich characterization, is a must-read." —Booklist (starred review)

Author : David Deutsch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141969695

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The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch Pdf

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavor. This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach, according to Deutsch: we are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve. In his previous book, The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch describe the four deepest strands of existing knowledge-the theories of evolution, quantum physics, knowledge, and computation-arguing jointly they reveal a unified fabric of reality. In this new book, he applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species. Filled with startling new conclusions about human choice, optimism, scientific explanation, and the evolution of culture, The Beginning of Infinity is a groundbreaking book that will become a classic of its kind.

Author : S. Harrison
Publisher : Skyscape
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1503945073

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Infinity Lost by S. Harrison Pdf

Infinity "Finn" Blackstone is the seventeen-year-old daughter of Blackstone's reclusive CEO--but she's never even met him. When disturbing dreams about a past she doesn't remember begin to torment her, Finn knows there's only one person who can provide answers: her father.

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781472107640

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A Brief History of Infinity by Brian Clegg Pdf

'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.' Douglas Adams, Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy We human beings have trouble with infinity - yet infinity is a surprisingly human subject. Philosophers and mathematicians have gone mad contemplating its nature and complexity - yet it is a concept routinely used by schoolchildren. Exploring the infinite is a journey into paradox. Here is a quantity that turns arithmetic on its head, making it feasible that 1 = 0. Here is a concept that enables us to cram as many extra guests as we like into an already full hotel. Most bizarrely of all, it is quite easy to show that there must be something bigger than infinity - when it surely should be the biggest thing that could possibly be. Brian Clegg takes us on a fascinating tour of that borderland between the extremely large and the ultimate that takes us from Archimedes, counting the grains of sand that would fill the universe, to the latest theories on the physical reality of the infinite. Full of unexpected delights, whether St Augustine contemplating the nature of creation, Newton and Leibniz battling over ownership of calculus, or Cantor struggling to publicise his vision of the transfinite, infinity's fascination is in the way it brings together the everyday and the extraordinary, prosaic daily life and the esoteric. Whether your interest in infinity is mathematical, philosophical, spiritual or just plain curious, this accessible book offers a stimulating and entertaining read.

Author : William A. Dembski
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780830832163

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The Design Revolution by William A. Dembski Pdf

Written by a noted expert on and popular advocate of intelligent design, this book explores more than 60 of the toughest questions asked by experts and non-experts.

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780393241990

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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace Pdf

"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson. Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one kind of infinity. Smart, challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics.

Author : Kevin Battleson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304362780

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Crash Flux by Kevin Battleson Pdf

Author : Wallace D Wattles
Publisher : Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles Pdf

Everyone wants to be rich, but do you know that there is a SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH. This book explains in simple steps how you can first ready yourself to earn more, without hassles or worries. From the simplest question of who all can actually get rich, to the small steps taken – like developing a will power, showing gratitude, getting into the right business – have been explained in detail, in everyday terms. Read on, and find out the secret behind changing your life and the way your earn.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Pocket Paragon
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015049977229

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The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

"Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Alexander R. Pruss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192538284

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Infinity, Causation, and Paradox by Alexander R. Pruss Pdf

Infinity is paradoxical in many ways. Some paradoxes involve deterministic supertasks, such as Thomson's Lamp, where a switch is toggled an infinite number of times over a finite period of time, or the Grim Reaper, where it seems that infinitely many reapers can produce a result without doing anything. Others involve infinite lotteries. If you get two tickets from an infinite fair lottery where tickets are numbered from 1, no matter what number you saw on the first ticket, it is almost certain that the other ticket has a bigger number on it. And others center on paradoxical results in decision theory, such as the surprising observation that if you perform a sequence of fair coin flips that goes infinitely far back into the past but only finitely into the future, you can leverage information about past coin flips to predict future ones with only finitely many mistakes. Alexander R. Pruss examines this seemingly large family of paradoxes in Infinity, Causation and Paradox. He establishes that these paradoxes and numerous others all have a common structure: their most natural embodiment involves an infinite number of items causally impinging on a single output. These paradoxes, he argues, can all be resolved by embracing 'causal finitism', the view that it is impossible for a single output to have an infinite causal history. Throughout the book, Pruss exposits such paradoxes, defends causal finitism at length, and considers connections with the philosophy of physics (where causal finitism favors but does not require discretist theories of space and time) and the philosophy of religion (with a cosmological argument for a first cause).

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781848318830

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Introducing Infinity by Brian Clegg Pdf

Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers – and provoked and shocked others. The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers. Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh's brilliant graphic tour of infinity features a cast of characters ranging from Archimedes and Pythagoras to al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Cantor, Venn, Gödel and Mandelbrot, and shows how infinity has challenged the finest minds of science and mathematics. Prepare to enter a world of paradox.

Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher : Penguin Group(CA)
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art and music
ISBN : 0140289208

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Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter Pdf

'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.

Author : Matt Parker
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780385680592

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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker Pdf

Mathematics made mouth-watering. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension is an alternative math class. How can math help you choose a second-hand car? Why is a text message like a Sudoku? How much fun can you have with a barcode? Matt Parker explains that math is difficult because it's one of the few subjects that requires us to train our brains to think in an entirely new way, and to confront things with no direct analogy in everyday life--imaginary numbers, snowflakes that only exist in 196884 dimensions, and objects beyond infinity--and shows us why it's worth the effort. Starting with basic arithmetic and geometry, Things To Make and Do teaches us the math we never got to enjoy at school. Each chapter is structured around activities and thought experiments: we are invited to make a calculator out of dominoes, find out why wrapping oranges in plastic wrap is a good way to learn about higher dimensions, and discover what soap bubbles have to teach us about calculus. A series of incremental and hugely entertaining steps take us all the way from simple algebra to the most exotic and fascinating ideas in mathematics: Klein bottles, higher dimensional topology and the many different species of infinity, via unimaginably small pizza slices, Mobius strips and a thorough examination of The Sausage Conjecture. This lively, funny, and deeply intelligent book teaches math in a fun, interactive manner rather than by rote learning and exercises. You'll not look at the number 37 the same way again. And you just might take part in Mobius strip craftwork.

Author : Frank Close
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465028030

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The Infinity Puzzle by Frank Close Pdf

Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake -- what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't't make sense -- its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to "renormalize" field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it.