Full name: The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless

Author: John D. Barrow Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781400032242 1400032245

For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is 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? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen that don't. All manner of strange paradoxes and fantasies characterize an infinite universe. If our Universe is infinite then an infinite number of exact copies of you are, at this very moment, reading an identical sentence on an identical planet somewhere else in the Universe. Now Infinity is the darling of cutting edge research, the measuring stick used by physicists, cosmologists, and mathematicians to determine the accuracy of their theories. From the paradox of Zeno's arrow to string theory, Cambridge professor John Barrow takes us on a grand tour of this most elusive of ideas and describes with clarifying subtlety how this subject has shaped, and continues to shape, our very sense of the world in which we live. The Infinite Book is a thoroughly entertaining and completely accessible account of the biggest subject of them all-infinity. Similar books: The Book of Nothing by John D. Barrow Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker The Fourth Dimension by Rudy Rucker Five Equations that Changed the World by Michael Guillen Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio The Recursive Universe by William Poundstone Poetry of the Universe by Robert Osserman Everything and More by David Foster Wallace 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D. Barrow In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle Asimov on Numbers by Isaac Asimov Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder New Theories of Everything by John D. Barrow The Book of Universes by John D. Barrow Theories of Everything by John D. Barrow The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden