Product Description: Mathematics can tell us things about the world that can’t be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining little book answers one hundred essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty questions, clarifies the conundrums, and sheds light into dark corners...read more

Product Description: Eminent cosmologist and writer John D. Barrow uses simple mathematics to answer one hundred perplexing questions from everyday life. Mathematics can reveal and illuminate things about the complex world we live in that can’t be found any other way...read more

Explores the concepts and many implications of the theory that the structure and operation of the universe is determined by the existence of intelligent observers

The author of the acclaimed best-seller, Pi in the Sky, shows how artistic tastes and creativity correspond to the laws of the universe imprinted in human beings by nature, in an eclectic and entertaining survey. UP. (view table of contents)

Shows how artistic tastes and creativity correspond to the laws of the universe imprinted in human beings by nature

Product Description: The origins of life on earth, the workings of the human mind, the mysteries of the Universe itself-profound questions such as these were once the province of philosophy and theology alone. Today they have become the staple-and indeed the hallmark-of the finest writing about science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A leading mathematician and cosmologist explores the concept of nothingness, from the origins of zero in ancient India, through changing ideas about 'nothing' from ancient Greece to the present day, to attempts by modern mathematics, cosmology, theology, and physics to explain the role of 'nothing' in the structure of the universe. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: This is a book about universes, a story that revolves around a single unusual and unappreciated fact: that Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes universes -- entire universes. Not many solutions of Einstein's tantalizing universe equations have ever been found, but those that have are all very remarkable...read more

Product Description: “There can be few better guides to the bewildering array of potential universes, and none so readable or entertaining.”―Manjit Kumar, The Independent Einstein’s theory of general relativity opens the door for the study of other possible universes―and weird universes at that...read more

A leading physicist and author of Theories of Everything describes what the constants of nature--the numbers that define the universe--tell us about the inner workings of the world around us and reveals how, despite our expertise at measuring the values of such constants, we cannot explain or predict them. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: “Dozens of short essays, each prompted by one of science’s visual creations . . . beautiful.”―George Johnson, New York Times Book Review We live in a visual age―an age of images; iconic, instant, and influential. In this remarkable book, John D...read more

Product Description: Warum ist ein Überschreiten der Lichtgeschwindigkeit unmöglich? Und warum kann kein mathematisches Theoriengebäude die Welt vollständig beschreiben? Durch Grenzen, die jeder wissenschaftlichen Forschung gesetzt sind, werden bei John D...read more

Product Description: Am Anfang war Symmetrie im Inferno des kosmischen Urknalls, mit dem unsere physikalische Welt begann. Was hat diese Symmetrie gebrochen und Strukturen wie Galaxien, Sterne, Planeten und Lebensbedingungen für Menschen geschaffen, die über das Universum nachdenken können? 'Die linke Hand der Schöpfung' ist ein Pionierbuch der Erfolgsautoren John D...read more

Product Description: This highly interdisciplinary 2007 book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle physicists have often explored how the observed laws and constants of nature lie within a narrow range that allows complexity and life to evolve and adapt...read more

Illuminating some of the most profound questions faced by science, the author demonstrates the limitations imposed on human knowledge and discovery by evolution, possibility, ethics, and other factors (view table of contents)

A leading mathematician, cosmologist, and author of The Constants of Nature furnishes an eye-opening study of the concept of infinity, tracing the history and meaning of infinity, from ancient times to the present day, and examining the diverse permutations of the infinite and their influence on the human sense of the world around. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Consider the ghostly neutrino. This elementary, subatomic particle carries with it not only an uncanny reminder of a time eons ago when symmetries were perfect, but also a clue as to how they came to be broken. For every neutrino that now spins to the left, there was once one that spun to the right: these parallel twins were destroyed in the "Big Bang," that cosmic apocalypse that, most scientists now agree, created the universe...read more

Published in 1991, John Barrow's Theories of Everything was hailed as "a mind-boggling intellectual adventure" by Publishers Weekly and as "an exhilarating journey...important, engaging, and highly literate" by New Scientist. Now, in New Theories of Everything, Barrow completely updates his classic account of one of the hottest fields in all of science--the search for a cosmic key that will unlock the secrets of the Universe. Will we ever discover a single scientific theory of everything? How can one theory ever explain a world full of chaos and complexity? In thisstimulating volume, Barrow sheds light on these questions as he presents the reader with the very latest ideas and predictions, ranging from the speculations of Stephen Wolfram about the world as a computer program to recent developments in string theory and M theory, new varieties of complexity, new ideas about the nature of mathematics, and much more. He reveals that the field has changed dramatically. Fifteen years ago, scientists sought a single theory uniquely specifying the constants and forces of nature, but today they envision a vast landscape of different logically possible laws and constants in many dimensions, of which our own world is but a tiny facet of a higher dimensional reality. Equally important, Barrow reflects on the philosophical and cultural consequences of those remarkable new ideas, highlighting their implications for our own place in the universe. The Theory of Everything has in recent years become the focus of some of the most exciting and imaginative thinking in science. Now fully revised, New Theories of Everything brings the story of this exhilarating quest completely up to date.