Sleight of Mind

Exploring more than seventy-five well-known paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences showing how reason and logic can dispel the illusion of contradiction.

Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician''s purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn''t require tangibles, like rabbits or hats. P...