Impossibility - The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits

Informationen zum Autor John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and formerly Professor of both Geometry and Astronomy at Gresham College, London. His previous books include The Book of Nothing , The Constants of Nature , The Infinite Book , Cosmic Imagery, the bestselling 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know , The Book of Universes , and, most recently, 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Sport . Klappentext "A thoughtful, careful and insightful book that is presented in a skilfully woven narrative, guiding the reader gently through the thicket of logic, physics, and mathematics... If you are fascinated, as I am, by the limits of knowledge, you will be richly rewarded by this book" )New Scientist(. Zusammenfassung Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. that any Universe complex enough to contain conscious beings will contain limits on what those beings can know about their Universe; that what we cannot know defines reality as surely as what we can know.

Product details

• Authors: John D. Barrow
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.03.1999
• EAN: 9780099772118
• ISBN: 978-0-09-977211-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; popular science, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Impact of science & technology on society, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, Impact of science and technology on society, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology