Inference: International Review of Science
Type: Online Digital Resources
Date: September 27, 2016
Subject Fields: History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Research and Methodology, Social Sciences
Vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 2016)
Table of Contents
Critical Essays
Fukugen, by Ivan Fesenko
On Shinichi Mochizuki’s Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory
The Recovery of Case, by David Berlinski & Juan Uriagereka
On Vergnaud’s letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik
The Excitable Mitochondria, by John Hewitt
A new view of the fundamental units of the nervous system.
Review Essay
Cantor’s Diagonalization Method, by Alexander Kharazishvili
The power of the diagonal method for set theory, recursion theory, and Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
Book Reviews
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky
W. Tecumseh Fitch
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
Daniel Kleitman
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
Luke Barnes
Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder
Daniel Gelernter
Experiment Review
Two Experiments in Abiogenesis, by James Tour
An analysis of two flawed experiments.
Film Review
The Man Who Knew Infinity, a film about mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
Krishnaswami Alladi
Short Notes
On Being a Fish, by Bret Weinstein
On cladistic relationships. The first installment of a series examining nomenclature.
Lost at Sea, by Josh Gelernter
The story of brilliant physicist Ettore Majorana, who mysteriously disappeared in 1938.