'If you are fascinated by the limits of knowledge, you will be richly rewarded by this book' New Scientist
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 the current Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. His principal area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including The Origin of the Universe, The Universe that Discovered Itself; The Book of Nothing, The Constants of Nature, The Infinite Book- a Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, The Artful Universe Expanded, New Theories of Everything, Cosmic Imagery and, most recently, The Book of Universes.
Barrow conducts a tour of many of the most interesting topics in
recent popular science, giving most of them a new twist in the
telling... Trying to improve our understanding of just what is
possible, and what is not, seems a vital part of the enterprise our
kind of consciousness has called science
*Financial Times*
[An] illuminating, well-written account... One can only wonder how
Barrow can possibly make all these [concepts] fit together into a
coherent story about the limits to science. Well, contrary to all
expectations, he does make them fit, and in only 250 pages! So for
about as good an account as youre going to get of where science
stops, read this book
*Nature*
Delightful and fascinating... Impossibility is a thoughtful,
careful, and insightful book that is presented in a skillfully
woven narrative, guiding the reader gently through the thicket of
logic, physics, and mathematics... If you are fascinated by the
limits of knowledge, you will be richly rewarded by this book
*New Scientist*
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