Books written by John D. Barrow
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Imágenes del cosmos: Las mejores ilustraciones de la historia de la ciencia
Existen determinadas imágenes fundamentales que plasman nuestro conocimiento de la vida y del Universo.
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Mathletics: A Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things About the World of Sports
There are of course other possibilities like promoting the best for half of the positions and the worst for the others, or some other mix of the best, worst, ... Blade Runner One of the most unusual disputes in sport Strange but True 233.
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New Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation
Meetings were held at the highest level and, barely a week later, on 15 February 2011, I was whisked to Downing Street to make my mark as the new rodent bouncer in residence. I'm Larry, and this is my diary of the first 100 days in the job.
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The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos
Provides a tour of the potential universes that could exist as a part of Einstein's theory of general relativity and introduces the physicists and mathematicians whose latest discoveries and ideas about physics and astronomy promote the ...
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Mathletics: A Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things About the World of Sports
Drawing on vivid, real-life examples, mathematician John D. Barrow entertainingly explores the eye-opening, often counterintuitive, insights into the world of sports that math and physics can give us.
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The Philosophy of Cosmology
Oh blind watchers of the sky.] Lesson 1: Theoretical prejudice should not blind one to the evidence. I would claim that the analogue of Tycho's supernova in the multiverse debate is the fine-tunings, even though we are literally 'blind' ...
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The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
The Infinite Book is a thoroughly entertaining and completely accessible account of the biggest subject of them all–infinity.
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Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits
Somewhat optimistically, he imagined that this formal procedure would allow all sorts of human disputes to be resolved logically. For instance, religious truths could be ... Today, the response to the super-being conceived of by Laplace ...
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New Theories of Everything
But this is not to say we should give up in bewilderment: Barrow shows how many rich and illuminating theories and questions arise, and what this may mean for our understanding of our own place in thecosmos.
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The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
Explores the concepts and many implications of the theory that the structure and operation of the universe is determined by the existence of intelligent observers
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The Origin Of The Universe
A leading cosmologist explains our current understanding of space and time There was immense excitement in the scientific community and among the general public when the COBE space probe sent...
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Impossibilità: i limiti della scienza e la scienza dei limiti
Impossibilità: i limiti della scienza e la scienza dei limiti
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The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
Ranging through mathematics, theology, philosophy, literature, particle physics, and cosmology, The Book of Nothing explores the enduring hold that vacuity has exercised on the human imagination.
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The Artful Universe: The Cosmic Source of Human Creativity
In this eclectic and entertaining study of the interrelationship between the arts and the sciences, Barrow explains how the landscape of the Universe has influenced the development of philosophy and mythology, and how millions of years of ...
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Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits
Astronomer John Barrow takes an intriguing look at the limits of science, who argues that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable.
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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Math and the Arts
But as mathematician John D. Barrow points out, they have a strong and natural affinity—after all, math is the study of all patterns, and the world of the arts is rich with pattern.
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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World
used on grocery products in 1973 but has since spread to labelling most of the items in our shops. It is a 12-digit number that is represented by a stack of lines, which a laser scanner can read easily. The UPC has four parts: below the ...
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The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
Infinity is surely the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities?...
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Science and Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology, and Complexity
It is socially realized and embodied in legislation , roles , customs , etc. Physical and biological possibilities World 3 : The world of Aristotelian possibilities This characterizes the set of all physical possibilities ...
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Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H2O
The book develops a variety of approaches that help to illuminate ways in which to address deeper questions with respect to the nature of the universe and our place withi