The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World - Couverture rigide

Deutsch, David

 
9780670022755: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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ISBN 10 : 0670022756 ISBN 13 : 9780670022755
Editeur : Viking Adult, 2011

Synopsis

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers.

Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavor. This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach, according to Deutsch: we are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve.

In his previous book, The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch describe the four deepest strands of existing knowledge-the theories of evolution, quantum physics, knowledge, and computation-arguing jointly they reveal a unified fabric of reality. In this new book, he applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species. Filled with startling new conclusions about human choice, optimism, scientific explanation, and the evolution of culture, The Beginning of Infinity is a groundbreaking book that will become a classic of its kind.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Deutsch, internationally acclaimed for his seminal publications on quantum computation, is a member of the Quantum Computation and Cryptography Research Group at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University.

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Éditeur
Viking Adult
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0670022756
ISBN 13 
9780670022755
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
496
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0143121359 ISBN 13 :  9780143121350
Editeur : Penguin Books, 2012
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