Author: Gregory J. Chaitin
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: limits, mathematics, theoretical, science, discrete, computer, formal, course, information, theory, reasoning
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2002-10-28
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1852336684
ISBN-13: 9781852336684
This book is the final version of a course on algorithmic information theory and the epistemology of mathematics and physics. It discusses Einstein and Goedel’s views on the nature of mathematics in the light of information theory, and sustains the thesis that mathematics is quasi-empirical. There is a foreword by Cris Calude of the University of Auckland, and supplementary material is available at the author’s web site. The special feature of this book is that it presents a new "hands on" didatic approach using LISP and Mathematica software. The reader will be able to derive an un
Author: John D. Barrow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: science, limits, impossibility
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-10-28
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0195130820
ISBN-13: 9780195130829
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
Author: United Nations
Publisher: United Nations
Keywords: shelf, limits, continental, preparation, submissions, commission, miles, nautical, delineation, training, manual, outer
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 2007-09-02
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 9211337410
ISBN-13: 9789211337419
The legal regime established by the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention for the delineation of the outer limits of the extended continental shelf combines both legal and scientific concepts, rendering its interpretation challenging to both legal practitioners with no scientific background, and marine scientists with no legal training. For this reason, the present Manual covers, to the extent possible, all relevant legal, scientific, logistical and procedural aspects of the delineation of the outer limits of the extended continental shelf in its nine modules.
Author: Steering Group for the Workshop on Size Limits of
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: compass, series, washington, workshop, proceedings, limits, small, microorganisms, size
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1999-09-13
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0309066344
ISBN-13: 9780309066341
Author: Vince Fly
Publisher: Pocket Star
Keywords: limits, term
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0671023187
ISBN-13: 9780671023188
Taking America back...one politician at a time TERM LIMITS In one bloody night, three of Washington’s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach -- not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next. Only Michael O’Rourke, a former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman
Author: P. B. Medawar
Publisher: Harpercollins
Keywords: science, limits
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 1984-10
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0060390360
ISBN-13: 9780060390365
"Science," writes Sir Peter Medawar, "is incomparably the most successful enterprise human beings have ever engaged upon." In this brief, brilliant book the Nobel laureate explores the nature and limitations of scientific pursuit. The three essays included touch on some of the largest questions known to man: Can science determine the existence of God? Is there one "scientific method" by which all the secrets of the universe can be discovered? In "An Essay on Scians" (an early spelling of "science"), Medawar examines the process of scientific inquiry. Debunking the common belief that s
Author: Braude
Publisher: Other
Keywords: influence, limits
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 1991-04-12
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0415062039
ISBN-13: 9780415062039
Levitations, materializations, healings, earthquake-like rocking. The evidence of large scale spontaneous psychokinesis through history is a neglected and unjustly maligned aspect of the science of parapsychology. In "The Limits of Influence" Stephen E. Braude argues that the familiar card-guessing experiments and statistical proofs’ of PSI will never elicit important or revealing facts about the phenomena. Instead he turns our attention to the substantial (if sometimes bizarre) qualitative evidence. Not only does this pose no threat to the fabric of science, but it holds out hope for su
