A Doubter's Almanac

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Authors: Ethan Canin

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This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Ethan Canin

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

RANDOM HOUSE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Mathematical Association of America for permission to include the Professor Gamble problem from page 49 of
The Contest Problem Book VII
by Harold B. Reiter as well as the modified answer to said problem, copyright © 2000 by the Mathematical Association of America. Reprinted by permission.

ISBN 9781400068265

eBook ISBN 9780812996784

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Book design by Simon M. Sullivan, adapted for ebook

Cover design: Joseph Perez

Cover illustration: Gérard Dubois

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Part One
Induction
A Late Arrival
Impossible
Welcome to the World
Singularity Theory
Deduction
Nature Never Lies
Poets
The Newton of North Oakland
Devil’s Fork
The Orrery
China White
Contraposition
Fine Hall
Occam’s Razor
Rise Over Run
Dogs and Horses
Another Roof, Another Proof
Time and Chance
You Can’t Comb the Hair on a Coconut
Regression to the Mean
Welcome to the Future
Order of Operations
Transire Suum Pectus
Ant on a Rubber Rope
Reductio Ad Impossibilem
A Scandinavian Weed
Discovery
Inventory
Part Two
Restatement
I Confess
Volatility Smile
The Great War of the Calculus

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