Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393065324
- ISBN 13
- 9780393065329
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About This Item
W. W. Norton & Company, 2009, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Royal octavo, fine, as new, in gray and black pictorial dj. 336 pp. including index. Author is professor in London. In 1932, the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli met the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Pauli was fascinated by the inner reaches of his own psyche and not afraid to dabble in the occult, while Jung looked to science for answers to the psychological questions that tormented him. Their rich friendship led them, in Jung's words, into "the no-man's land between physics and the psychology of the unconscious . . . the most fascinating yet the darkest hunting ground of our times." Both were obsessed with the far-reaching significance of the number "137"-a primal number that seemed to hint at the origins of the universe itself....
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84092
- Title
- Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0393065324
- ISBN 13
- 9780393065329
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, 2009
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
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