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"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite." (New York Times)
Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cantor and his set theory. Through it all, Wallace proves to be an ideal guide - funny, wry, and unfailingly enthusiastic. Featuring an introduction by Neal Stephenson, this edition is a perfect introduction to the beauty of mathematics and the undeniable strangeness of the infinite.
Includes a downloadable PDF with images from the text.
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A Most Elegant Equation
- Euler’s Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics
- De: David Stipp
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry". This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler, the Mozart of mathematics. More than two centuries after Euler's death, it is still regarded as a conceptual diamond of unsurpassed beauty. Called Euler's identity, or God's equation, it includes just five numbers but represents an astonishing revelation of hidden connections.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good treatment of the subject
- De Kindle Customer en 04-09-18
De: David Stipp
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Epistemology
- An Audio Guide
- De: Robert M. Martin
- Narrado por: Richard Aspel
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Without knowledge, scientific enquiry is meaningless and we can’t analyse the world around us. But what exactly is knowledge and how do we obtain it? Should we trust our senses? When is belief knowledge? Presuming no prior experience, Robert Martin covers everything in the topic from scepticism and induction to Kant’s transcendentalism. Clear and readable, this audiobook is essential for philosophy students and a much needed introduction for the general reader.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Going to hear it again
- De R Durero en 08-02-14
De: Robert M. Martin
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Is God a Mathematician?
- De: Mario Livio
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world. More than that - mathematics has often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Origins of Mathematics
- De Rick B en 07-08-21
De: Mario Livio
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The King of Infinite Space
- Euclid and His Elements
- De: David Berlinski
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 3 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over 2,000 years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, arguably the most influential book in the history of mathematics. In The King of Infinite Space, renowned mathematics writer David Berlinski provides a concise homage to this elusive mathematician and his staggering achievements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funniest Highest and Fullest math overview
- De Francisco Garcia en 12-12-22
De: David Berlinski
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Where the Conflict Really Lies
- Science, Religion, & Naturalism
- De: Alvin Plantinga
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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This audiobook is a long-awaited major statement by a pre-eminent analytic philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, on one of our biggest debates - the compatibility of science and religion. The last twenty years has seen a cottage industry of books on this divide, but with little consensus emerging. Plantinga, as a top philosopher but also a proponent of the rationality of religious belief, has a unique contribution to make. His theme in this short book is that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The reader makes or breaks an audiobook.
- De Alec en 02-16-15
De: Alvin Plantinga
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Being Logical
- A Guide to Good Thinking
- De: D.Q. McInerny
- Narrado por: Al Kessel
- Duración: 3 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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Logic is synonymous with reason, judgment, sense, wisdom, and sanity. Being logical is the ability to create concise and reasoned arguments - arguments that build from given premises, using evidence, to a genuine conclusion. But mastering logical thinking also requires studying and understanding illogical thinking, both to sharpen one's own skills and to protect against incoherent or deliberately misleading reasoning. Elegant, pithy, and precise, Being Logical breaks logic down to its essentials through clear analysis, accessible examples, and focused insights.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Easy To Absorb
- De Patrick A. Blank en 04-02-20
De: D.Q. McInerny
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- De: Jim Holt
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 633
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 538
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good overview of scientific theory
- De MJ Walters en 09-11-18
De: Jim Holt
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Proving History
- Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
- De: Richard Carrier
- Narrado por: Richard Carrier
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes's Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical criteria. The author demonstrates that valid historical methods - not only in the study of Christian origins but in any historical study - can be described by, and reduced to, the logic of Bayes's Theorem. Conversely, he argues that any method that cannot be reduced to this theorem is invalid and should be abandoned.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book, Difficult Format
- De Erin Branscome en 08-21-15
De: Richard Carrier
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On the Soul & Parva Naturalia
- De: Aristotle
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Two contrasting reflections by Aristotle which cover very particular ground. In 'On the Soul', Aristotle presents his view of the 'life essence' which, he argues, is possessed by living things whether plants, animals or humans. Not a 'soul' in the generally accepted Western use of the term, this 'soul', he says, is a life force that is indivisible from the organism that possesses it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DeAnima. Aristotle on the soul.
- De Reader en 07-28-18
De: Aristotle
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- De: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,152
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A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were - and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The problem is not with the book
- De Marcus en 08-09-09
De: Thomas S. Kuhn
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Jeff Crawford
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant to guide you through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it, but some philosophy background needed.
- De LongerILiveLessIKnow en 11-14-13
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There Is a God
- How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
- De: Antony Flew, Roy Abraham Varghese - contributor
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever change the atheism debate.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Rebekah Hull en 08-03-21
De: Antony Flew, y otros
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The Trouble with Physics
- The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
- De: Lee Smolin
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 534
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In this illuminating book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics - the search for the laws of nature - is losing its way. Ambitious ideas about extra dimensions, exotic particles, multiple universes, and strings have captured the publics imagination -- and the imagination of experts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strings snipped
- De J B Tipton en 06-06-10
De: Lee Smolin
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Why Does the World Exist?
- An Existential Detective Story
- De: Jim Holt
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 299
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Author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway best seller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fatal Reader Flaw
- De Let's Be Reasonable en 05-09-14
De: Jim Holt
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Aquinas
- An Audio Guide
- De: Edward Feser
- Narrado por: Adrian Mulraney
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the history of Western thought, St Thomas Aquinas established the foundations for much of modern philosophy of religion, and is famous for his arguments for the existence of God. In this cogent and multifaceted introduction to the great saint's work, Edward Feser argues that you cannot fully understand Aquinas' philosophy without his theology, and vice-versa. He covers Aquinas' thoughts on the soul, natural law, metaphysics, and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book marred by faulty pronunciation
- De Charles en 09-13-15
De: Edward Feser
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Dance of the Photons
- From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation
- De: Anton Zeilinger
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Einstein's steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he once derided as spooky action at a distance the notion that two elementary particles far removed from each other could nonetheless influence each others propertiesa hypothetical phenomenon his fellow theorist Erwin Schrdinger termed quantum entanglement.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant author tries hard, but comes up short...
- De Michael en 07-27-12
De: Anton Zeilinger
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
- Essays and Arguments
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Paul Garcia
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 845
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 719
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book, terrible narration!
- De Karen en 08-20-13
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Consider the Lobster (A Story from Consider the Lobster)
- And Other Essays
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How this differs from the other version
- De Jonathan Penley en 12-26-17
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 395
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This is ABRIDGED
- De Mark en 09-26-09
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The Pale King
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 661
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 558
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The King is dead, long live the King!
- De Darwin8u en 10-31-16
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace, Sally Foster Wallace, y otros
- Duración: 48 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 179
Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here - with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Impossible to use without Chapter Names
- De Ethan Klitzke en 12-04-21
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Oblivion
- Stories
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 304
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 264
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just 2 Fast & Huge & ALL Interconnected 4 Words
- De Darwin8u en 08-22-12
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
- Essays and Arguments
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Paul Garcia
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 845
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 721
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 719
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book, terrible narration!
- De Karen en 08-20-13
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Consider the Lobster (A Story from Consider the Lobster)
- And Other Essays
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 588
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 488
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How this differs from the other version
- De Jonathan Penley en 12-26-17
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
- Highlights
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 399
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 395
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This is ABRIDGED
- De Mark en 09-26-09
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The Pale King
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 661
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 555
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 558
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The King is dead, long live the King!
- De Darwin8u en 10-31-16
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace, Sally Foster Wallace, y otros
- Duración: 48 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 179
Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here - with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Impossible to use without Chapter Names
- De Ethan Klitzke en 12-04-21
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Oblivion
- Stories
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 264
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just 2 Fast & Huge & ALL Interconnected 4 Words
- De Darwin8u en 08-22-12
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The Broom of the System
- A Novel
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 568
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At the center of The Broom of the System is the betwitching (and also bewildered) heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio, which sits on the edge of a suburban wasteland-the Great Ohio Desert. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Evidence I WASTED my College years.
- De Darwin8u en 04-18-12
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Infinite Jest
- De: David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 64 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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With footnotes!
- De George Saris en 04-25-24
De: David Foster Wallace, y otros
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
- A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
- De: David Lipsky
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain, Danny Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 340
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In David Lipsky's view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace's pieces for Harper's magazine in the '90s were, according to Lipsky, like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away. You knew something gigantic was coming.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Leapin' Over That Wall of Self
- De Darwin8u en 08-27-12
De: David Lipsky
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On Tennis
- Five Essays
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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From the author of Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster: A collection of five brilliant essays on tennis, from the author's own experience as a junior player to his celebrated profile of Roger Federer at the peak of his powers. A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. On Tennis presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on the sport, published between 1990 and 2006, and hailed as some of the greatest and most innovative sports writing of our time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform
- De Darwin8u en 01-27-17
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Girl with Curious Hair
- Stories
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 167
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From the eerily "real", almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and over-televised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, in which terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, David Foster Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, and the familiar strange.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This book is not NOT a Datsun!
- De Darwin8u en 04-15-12
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- De: Jim Holt
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 633
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 538
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good overview of scientific theory
- De MJ Walters en 09-11-18
De: Jim Holt
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Our Mathematical Universe
- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- De: Max Tegmark
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,506
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,181
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- De Michael en 02-02-14
De: Max Tegmark
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Both Flesh and Not
- Essays
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
Beloved for his epic agony, brilliantly discerning eye, and hilarious and constantly self-questioning tone, David Foster Wallace was heralded by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. Both Flesh and Not gathers 15 essays never published in book form, including "Federer Both Flesh and Not", considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece; "The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2", which deftly dissects James Cameron's blockbuster; and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Both Perfect and Not
- De Darwin8u en 02-16-13
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This Is Water
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Amy Wallace-Havens
- Duración: 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? This audiobook version of a David Foster Wallace commencement speech, read by his sister, Amy Wallace-Havens, captures his electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too short for what you pay for!
- De Adryan en 05-14-09
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
- A Life of David Foster Wallace
- De: D. T. Max
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 384
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 341
David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Max avoids hagiography or a sycophant's biography
- De Darwin8u en 06-11-13
De: D. T. Max
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A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
- Brief Histories
- De: Brian Clegg
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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
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3 out of 5 stars
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Really not great in Audio, not great otherwise
- De Michael en 03-29-13
De: Brian Clegg
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Beyond Infinity
- An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
- De: Eugenia Cheng
- Narrado por: Moira Quirk
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way, she considers how to use a chessboard to plan a worldwide dinner party, how to make a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and how to create infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe for children, but not for me
- De Scott en 04-13-17
De: Eugenia Cheng
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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- Brian E.
- 03-08-22
Equations via audio are tuff
Performance was good, and there was a lot of interesting stuff to think about including funny factoids, but when it comes to equations i need to see them written out unless they’re REALLY simple. Often times, DFW did a good job of giving you the upshot of what a specific equation meant, but just as often i felt like i was missing something by not seeing the equation on a page.
Maybe something like this could be added to the pdf??? Go section by section, equation by equation with time-stamps or something…
What should DEFINITELY have been added to the pdf, though, is the emergency glossaries and, I would argue, a bunch of other terms that are frequently brought up, since even though many of those things are defined in the text, it isn’t easy to flip back to them in this audio format.
So, yeah. Don’t be so stingy with the pdf
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