Impossibility [[electronic resource] ] : The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits

• Autore: Barrow John D. <1952-2020.>
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 501
• Soggetto topico: Go ̈del's theorem; Limit (Logic); Science
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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 universe
• Titolo autorizzato: Impossibility
• ISBN: 1-280-83316-5; 9786610833160; 0-19-152338-0; 0-19-535138-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453073103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II