The Eudaemonic Pie
Published on 14. March 2017
287 pages
978-1-5040-4065-5 (ISBN)
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The Eudaemonic Pie is the bizarre true story of how a band of physicists and computer wizards took on Las Vegas.
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Thomas A. Bass
The Eudaemonic Pie
The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas
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03/2017
Open Road Media
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Thomas Bass was a member of the group whose adventures are chronicled in The Eudaemonic Pie. He writes for The New Yorker, Wired, and other magazines. He lives in New York and Paris.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- PROLOGUE: Glitter Gulch
- ONE: Silver City
- TWO: Rambling and Gambling
- THREE: Driving Around the Mode Map
- FOUR: Radios from Other Planets
- FIVE: Debugging
- SIX: The Invention of the Wheel
- SEVEN: Strange Attractors
- EIGHT: Exploring the Envelope
- NINE: Lady Luck
- TEN: Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions
- ELEVEN: Small Is Beautiful
- TWELVE: Magic Shoes
- THIRTEEN: The City of Computation
- FOURTEEN: Rebel Science
- FIFTEEN: "Dear Eudaemons"
- SIXTEEN: Cleopatra's Barge
- EPILOGUE: The Intergalactic Infandibulum
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page
