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Mainstream theories of the brain are often expressed through engineering concepts—computation, code, control, reverse-engineering, optimization.
These theories cast the living organism as a machine and the brain as a computer.
The fact that cognition is a biological phenomenon seems merely anecdotal; biology is considered just “implementation.”
In “The Brain, In Theory,” Romain Brette argues that the brain is not a “biological computer” because living organisms are not engineered.
Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics—imagine where we’d be today if Einstein and Newton didn’t have the math to back up their ideas.
But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics?
Mark Levi shows how in this delightful book, treating readers to a host of entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers that will amuse and inspire their inner physicist.
