personal computers 307 PET 107 philosophical proof 246 philosophy 193 Photo Electric Effect 366 photographic memory 119 photons 110, 320, 331, 332, 348 photosynthesis 50, 124 physics 180 determinism 316 Picasso, Pablo 232, 246, 298 pit vipers 102 Pixar 306 Places game 168 plank interval 131, 255 Plato 149, 179 Podolsky, Jacob 332 poem computer created 134 Poincaré Conjecture 357 Poincaré, Henri 171, 180 Polaroid lenses 332 police strike 54 Polish Intelligence Bureau 211 polynomial 164 polywater 157 positivism 153 positron emission tomography 107 Post, Emil 258 Post Problems 258 Powell, Colin 53 PowerPoint 63 preparation 301 Previn, Andre 93 prime numbers 156, 243, 343 Princeton University 97, 212, 223, 251 Principia Mathematica 195 Private Eye 287 process creativity versus 312 program equivalence problem 250 programmer 235, 238, 263 programming geniuses 271 super-programmers 266 progressive cipher 214 proof Feynman’s proof 157 indirect 244 mathematical 156 philosophical 246
Index 415
PSPACE problem 168 Pulitzer Prize 365, 367 purpose on the planet 9 puzzle
two guards 151 Pygmalion 25 Pythagoras 243 Pythagorean triangle 240
Q
quantitative numerical skills 30
quants 71
quantum brains 122
quantum computers 277
quantum cryptography 215, 217
quantum effects 50, 282
quantum gravity interaction 329
quantum mechanics 22, 123, 180, 293, 344
Copenhagen interpretation 327
quantum Morse machine 337
quantum randomness 45
quantum uncertainty 21
quartz 121
quartz crystal 43
qubits 21
quinine 100
R
radioactive decay 327 random chance 254 random numbers 44 Reagan, Ronald 79 reality 289 real numbers 280 reductio ad absurdum 152, 157 reflection 319 relativity 180 Special Relativity 348 Theory of Relativity 366 Renaissance 16, 297 Reykjavik 79 rice covering chessboard 163 Rice's Theorem 267 Riemann Hypothesis 238, 257 Riemann surfaces 368 Ritchie, Graeme 310 Rivest, Ron 165 Robinson Davis Matiyasevich theory 248
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