The Genius Test

The Genius Test

by Giles Sparrow
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 02/11/2017

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**What is the Higgs Boson? Where did life come from? And what are you looking at when you're looking at Modern Art


Put your knowledge to the test - and learn to think and talk like a genius.**


The Genius Test takes you on a journey through humanity's most brain-bending ideas, from the big bang and the origins of life to chaos theory, existentialism and special relativity, challenging you to understand and providing the tools to help you master the big ideas.


Shortcuts to becoming a genius include:


· Are you a Genius? quizzes - questions to test your knowledge

· The 10 things a Genius would know

· Talk like a Genius - intellectual conversation gambits

· A Bluffer's summary


The Genius Test challenges you to understand 50 subjects including:


The Hard Problem of consciousness; the human genome; Evo-devo; the human brain; A.I.; Fermat's Last Theorem; the Riemann Hypothesis; Gödel's Theorem of Incompleteness; Post-modernism; Modern architecture; Keynesianism; Semiotics and Structuralism; Schrödinger's cat; DNA; Deconstructivism; the mind-body problem; Superstrings; Quantum Theory; The Big Bang; black holes...and many more.

ISBN:
9781786485489
9781786485489
Category:
Trivia & quiz question books
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
02-11-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Quercus
Giles Sparrow

Giles Sparrow studied astronomy at University College, London, and science communication at Imperial College, before embarking on a career in publishing.

Starting out as an editor, he worked on various science reference books for young readers, including DK's Eyewitness series and their larger Visual Encyclopedia series.

He is now a popular science author with a string of beautiful and successful books for adults and children under his belt, including Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide, Cosmos, Spaceflight, Exploring the Solar System series, and many others.

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