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Author:   John D. Barrow
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Vintage Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.312kg
ISBN:  

9781400032242

ISBN 10:   1400032245
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   12 September 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Preface 1 Much Ado about Everything The Rough Guide to Infinity Intimations of the Infinite Zeno Hour 2 Infinity, Almost and Actual, Fictitious and Factual Darkness at Noon A Purely Aristotelian Relationship Infinity and God A Little Kant 3 Welcome to the Hotel Infinity Hotels Experiences of the Hotel Infinity The Hotel Infinity’s Accounts 4 Infinity Is Not a Big Number An Immaculate Misconception Albert of Saxony’s Paradox Galileo’s Paradox Cadmus and Harmonia Terminator 0, 1⁄2, and 1 Countable Infinities Uncountable Infinities The Towering Infinito 5 The Madness of Georg Cantor Cantor and Son The Chronicle of Kronecker Cantor, God, and Infinity – the Trinity with Affinity All’s Sad that Ends Bad 6 Infinity Comes in Three Flavours Triple Top Let’s Get Physical Naked Infinities The Great Blue Yonder Infinity on the Back Foot 7 Is the Universe Infinite? Everything That Is Cosmology Goes Underground Bent Universes The Problem of Topology The Problem of Uniformity The Problem of Acceleration Where Does This Leave Us? The Shining 8 The Infinite Replication Paradox A Universe Where Nothing Is Original The Great Escape The Temporal Version – Been There, Done That The Never-ending Story The Ethics of the Infinite 9 Worlds Without End Other Worlds in History Out of This World Inflation – Here, There, and Everywhere Conscious Interventions – Men in Black Simulated Universes How Should We Then Live? 10 Making Infinity Machines Super-tasks Rubbing Thomson’s Lamp Some Norse Code The End-game Problem Relativity and the Amazing Shrinking Man A Matter of Timing Newtonian Super-tasks Relativistic Super-tasks Big Bangs and Big Crunches 11 Living Forever Childhood’s End The Sociology of Eternity The Problem-Page of the Unending Future The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten Incestuous Time Travel The Grandmother Paradox Consistent Histories Tourists From the Future Time Travellers in the Financial World: Perpetual Money Machines Why You Can’t Change the Past Infinity – Where Will It All End? Notes Index

Reviews

Highly engaging. . . . [Barrow] brings his charm and wit to bear. . . . [He] introduces novel twists and turns, and presents [the] material in refreshing ways. - Nature <br> Eloquent. . . . Succinct. . . . Barrow [has the] remarkable ability to provide clear, concise, engaging and distinctly finite explanations-even when describing some fairly advanced concepts. . . . [An] engaging read. - San Francisco Chronicle <br> Clever and insightful. . . . [A] lively history of infinity through the ages. - Entertainment Weekly <br> Entertaining. . . . Remarkably lucid and not the least mind-boggling. . . . His clear, engaging style manages to illuminate abstruse matters.... This is a useful guide to an endlessly fascinating subject. - American Scientist

Highly engaging. . . . [Barrow] brings his charm and wit to bear. . . . [He] introduces novel twists and turns, and presents [the] material in refreshing ways. - Nature <br><br> Eloquent. . . . Succinct. . . . Barrow [has the] remarkable ability to provide clear, concise, engaging and distinctly finite explanations-even when describing some fairly advanced concepts. . . . [An] engaging read. - San Francisco Chronicle <br><br> Clever and insightful. . . . [A] lively history of infinity through the ages. - Entertainment Weekly <br><br> Entertaining. . . . Remarkably lucid and not the least mind-boggling. . . . His clear, engaging style manages to illuminate abstruse matters.... This is a useful guide to an endlessly fascinating subject. - American Scientist

Highly engaging. . . . [Barrow] brings his charm and wit to bear. . . . [He] introduces novel twists and turns, and presents [the] material in refreshing ways. Nature Eloquent. . . . Succinct. . . . Barrow [has the] remarkable ability to provide clear, concise, engaging and distinctly finite explanations even when describing some fairly advanced concepts. . . . [An] engaging read. San Francisco Chronicle Clever and insightful. . . . [A] lively history of infinity through the ages. Entertainment Weekly Entertaining. . . . Remarkably lucid and not the least mind-boggling. . . . His clear, engaging style manages to illuminate abstruse matters.... This is a useful guide to an endlessly fascinating subject. American Scientist

Author Information

John D. Barrow is Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Theories of Everything and Impossibility.

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