The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny

by Ivar Ekeland

Book Overview

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what is the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? Is it the world that operates the most efficiently? Or the one in which most people are comfortable and content? Questions such as these have preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there was a time, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226199959
• ISBN13: 9780226199955
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"