Impossibility by John D. Barrow
The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits
An exploration of the many kinds of limits that define what can and cannot be known, proved, computed, or achieved, weaving together insights from mathematics, physics, cosmology, computer science, and economics. It explains how logical paradoxes, incompleteness and undecidability theorems, thermodynamic and relativistic constraints, and social-choice impossibilities set boundaries on knowledge and technology, while also catalyzing creativity and shaping scientific progress.
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- Published
- 1998
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- British
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- 280-320
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- English
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