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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
David Deutsch |
ISBN: | 0713990619 9780713990614 9780140275414 014027541X |
OCLC Number: | 36393434 |
Awards: | Short-listed for Rhone-Poulenc Science Books Prize 1998 |
Description: | x, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The theory of everything -- Shadows -- Problem-solving -- Criteria for reality -- Virtual reality -- Universality and the limits of computation -- A conversation about justification -- The significance of life -- Quantum computers -- The nature of mathematics -- Time: the first quantum concept -- Time travel -- The four strands -- The ends of the universe. |
Responsibility: | David Deutsch. |
Abstract:
A challenging synthesis of unifying ideas arising from quantum theory, the theory of computation, epistemology and the theory of evolution, this book explores the deep connections between the progress of knowledge of the world and the process of change in the world itself.
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