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作者： John D.Barrow 著
出 版 社： 东至影音 (代销)
出版时间： 2006-9-1字数：版次： 1页数： 328印刷时间： 2006/09/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781400032242包装： 平装内容简介
As prolific science writer and physicist Barrow regularly remarks, infinity is not merely the smallest or biggest thing, or the longest time imaginable: it's a quality that is unimaginable. It's thus a paradox that mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers have discovered quite a bit about infinity, albeit with different degrees of certitude. As also related in David Foster Wallace's Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (2003), Barrow recounts the career of German mathematician Georg Cantor, whose explorations of set theory resulted in fundamental proofs about infinities (some are bigger than others, for example). However joyous such discoveries are to the numbers masters, physicists' encounters with infinities are less rapturous because they hint at deficiencies in general relativity; hence their joy over string theory, which eliminates infinities that arise in calculations about the big bang and black holes. Performing with his customary fluency and accessibility, Barrow imparts for general readers a feeling for the nub of thought about the mathematical, cosmic, ethical, and theological implications of infinity.
目录
Preface
1Much Ado about Everything
The Rough Guide to Infinity
IntImations of the Infmite
Zeno HOUr
2Infinity,Almost and Actual,Fictitious and Factual
Darkness at Noon
A Purety Aristotel,ian Relationship
Infinity and God
A Littte Kant
3Welcome to the Hotel Infini9
Hotets
Experiences of the Hotel Infinity
The Hotel,Infinity'S Accounts
4Infinity Is Not a Big Number
An Immacul,ate Misconception
Atbert of Saxony'S Paradox
Galileo'S Pa radox
Cadmus and Harmonia
Terminator 0,1/2,and 1
Countable Inflnities
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
6Infinity Comes in Three Flavours
Trip Le Top
Let's Get Physical
Naked Infmities
The Great B[ue Yonde'
Infinity on the Back Foot
7Is the Universe Infinite?
Eve rything That Is
Cosmotogy Goes Underground
Bent Universes
The Prob Lem of Topology
The Probtem of UnIformitv
The Prob Lem of Acce Leration
Where Does This Leave Us?
The Shining
8The Infinite Replication Paradox
A Universe Where Nothing Is Originat
The Great Escape
The Tempora[Version-Been There,Done That
The Never-ending Story
The Ethlcs of the lnfinIte
9Worlds Without End
Other Wortds in History
Out of This Worid
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10Making Infinity Machines
11Living Forever
Notes
Index
