The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The S cientific Age
by Horgan, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/ Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0201626799
- ISBN 13
- 9780201626797
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About This Item
Reading, Mass: Basic Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/ Fine. A crisp first edition/printing, protected in a new brodart wrapper: John Horgan makes the powerful case that the best and most exciting scientific discoveries are behind us. He states that many scientists today, particularly those he interviewed for the book, are "gripped by a profound unease," due partially to dwindling financial resources and vicious competition, but increasingly due to the sense that "the great era of scientific discovery is over." In other words, he argues, the big problems that can be solved have been, and the big ones that haven't been solved can't be. Among the celebrated thinkers quoted in this ambitious book are Stephen Jay Gould, Roger Penrose, and John Archibald Wheeler. A concise history of the last 20 years of scientific study introduces his thesis and covers such topics as superstring theory, mathematical topology, and how to distinguish chaos from complexity.
Synopsis
"First published in the United States by Addison-Wesley 1996"--T.p. verso. Includes index.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000015261
- Title
- The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The S cientific Age
- Author
- Horgan, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+/ Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0201626799
- ISBN 13
- 9780201626797
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- Reading, Mass
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sciences / General Science;
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