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. 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 Natureĭelightful and fascinating. One can only wonder how Barrow can possibly make all these fit together into a coherent story about the limits to science. 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 Barrow Oxford University Press ( 1998 ) Copy BIBTEX Abstract John Barrow is increasingly recognized as one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers, a brilliant commentator on cosmology, mathematics, and modern physics. 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. Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits John D.
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