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- ISBN
- 9780262019354
- Book Title
- Outer Limits of Reason : What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Science, Mathematics, Philosophy
- Topic
- History & Philosophy, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Epistemology, History
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 25 oz
- Number of Pages
- 428 Pages
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An exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge that challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves. Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason , Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own thought processes. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve; perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense; different levels of infinity; the bizarre world of the quantum; the relevance of relativity theory; the causes of chaos theory; math problems that cannot be solved by normal means; and statements that are true but cannot be proven. He explains the limitations of our intuitions about the world -- our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known. Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262019353
ISBN-13
9780262019354
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166720593
Product Key Features
Book Title
Outer Limits of Reason : What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Philosophy, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Epistemology, History
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Mathematics, Philosophy
Number of Pages
428 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
25 oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Q175.32.K45y36 2013
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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The scope of the material covered is so wide, and the writing so clear and intuitive, that all readers will learn something new and stimulating., In my view, Outer Limits is an extraordinary, and extraordinarily interesting, book. It is a cornucopia of mind-bending ideas., Yanofsky takes on this mindboggling subject with confidence and impressive clarity. He eases the reader into the subject matter, ending each chapter with further readings. His book is a fascinating resource for anyone who seeks a better understanding of the world through the strangeness of its own limitations and a must-read for anyone studying information science., Yanofsky provides an entertaining and informative whirlwind trip through limits onreason in language, formal logic, mathematics -- and in science, the culmination of humankind'sattempts to reason about the world., In my view, Outer Limits is an extraordinary, and extraordinarilyinteresting, book. It is a cornucopia of mind-bending ideas., Yanofsky provides an entertaining and informative whirlwind trip through limits on reason in language, formal logic, mathematics -- and in science, the culmination of humankind's attempts to reason about the world., Yanofsky takes on this mindboggling subject with confidence and impressive clarity.He eases the reader into the subject matter, ending each chapter with further readings. His book isa fascinating resource for anyone who seeks a better understanding of the world through thestrangeness of its own limitations and a must-read for anyone studying informationscience.
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2012-050531
Dewey Decimal
001.01
Dewey Edition
23
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