Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits

“A thoughtful, careful and insightful book that is presented in a skilfully woven narrative, guiding the reader gently through the thicket of logic, physics, and mathematics… If you are fascinated, as I am, by the limits of knowledge, you will be richly rewarded by this book” )New Scientist(. John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the current Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. His principal area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including The Origin of the Universe, The Universe that Discovered Itself; The Book of Nothing, The Constants of Nature, The Infinite Book: a Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, The Artful Universe Expanded, New Theories of Everything, Cosmic Imagery and, most recently, The Book of Universes.