02201nam 22004693u 450 991045307310332120211005204100.01-280-83316-597866108331600-19-152338-00-19-535138-X(CKB)1000000000555269(EBL)430655(OCoLC)609830435(MiAaPQ)EBC430655(EXLCZ)99100000000055526920140113d1999|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Impossibility[electronic resource] The Limits of Science and the Science of LimitsOxford Oxford University Press, USA19991 online resource (294 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-513082-0 Contents; Chapter 1: The art of the impossible; Chapter 2: The hope of progress; Chapter 3: Back to the future; Chapter 4: Being human; Chapter 5: Technological limits; Chapter 6: Cosmological limits; Chapter 7: Deep limits; Chapter 8: Impossibility and us; Chapter 9: Impossibility: taking stock; Notes; IndexIn Impossibility, John D. Barrow--one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers--argues convincingly that there are limits to human discovery, that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable. Barrow first examines the limits of the human mind: our brain evolved to meet the demands of our immediate environment, and much that lies outside this small circle may also lie outside our understanding. He investigates practical impossibilities, such as those imposed by complexity, uncomputability, or the finiteness of time, space, and resources. Is the universeGo ̈del's theoremLimit (Logic)ScienceElectronic books.Go ̈del's theorem.Limit (Logic).Science.501Barrow John D.1952-2020.991728AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910453073103321Impossibility2269678UNINA