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The Parrot's Theorem: A Novel Denis Guedj
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Feb 3, 2014 - Despite these accomplishments, however, Kurzweil is perhaps best known for his science fiction-sounding predictions about the future, as described in his book, “The Singularity is Near.” He posits that near . There is only parrots and armchair critics, beside hundreds of researchers and dozens of labs who confirm it in a handful of different ways. Armstrong's position on universals, but nobody thinks that Armstrong is naive or silly or not worth taking seriously. I'm not familiar with Craig's responses to all these objections, but I know Christian apologists have offered many different “solutions” to them, and I suspect Craig would parrot one of them. Sep 9, 2009 - It is quite easy to fill a book with counter-examples and counter-arguments regarding D.M. The initial arguments against Cold fusion were clearly pathological, and today no one having tested LENr do oppose it. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey 28. Apr 8, 2012 - A reminder: every now and then I encounter a paper or a book or an article that grabs my interest but isn't directly useful for anything. Adams' observation about the production of coal in the United States is prescient of another oft-cited theorem in entrepreneurial circles, and by Kurzweil, concerning integrated circuits specifically, and the advance of technology in general. Nov 18, 2013 - In terms of actual discovery, often most innovation comes from old-fashioned tweaking: playing around with the elements of a set and making novel combinations. Armed with this dubious premise, the novel meanders on as Colin mopes and tries to establish a "theorem" to explain his history as a "dumpee". Ruche, a Parisian bookseller, receives a bequest from a long lost friend in the Amazon of a vast library of math books, which propels him into a great exploration of the story of mathematics. It is better compared to, say, the gravitational shell theorem. Dec 29, 2011 - I believe it was in "The Parrot's Theorem" by Denis Guedj, when I first read that it took John Napier nearly forty years to construct his logarithm tables.