Impossibility - The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits

Informationen zum Autor John Barrow 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); 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