The Beginning of Infinity
  • Published: 26 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780140278163
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $32.99
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The Beginning of Infinity

Explanations that Transform The World

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2 Apr 2012
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26 Jan 2012
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'This is the great Life, the Universe and Everything book for our time' Independent

In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics, moral values and human welfare. But will progress end, either in catastrophe or completion - or will it continue indefinitely?

In this profound and seminal book, David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding, taking in the Infinity Hotel, supernovae and the nature of optimism, to instill in all of us a wonder at what we have achieved - and the fact that this is only the beginning of humanity's infinite possibility.
  • Published: 26 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780140278163
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

David Deutsch

David Deutsch, internationally acclaimed for his seminal publications on quantum computation, is a member of the Quantum Computation and Cryptography Research Group at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University.

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Praise for The Beginning of Infinity

Experience the thrill of the highest level of discourse available on this planet ... This is the great Life, the Universe and Everything book for our time

Independent

Bold ... profound ... provocative and persuasive.

The Economist

Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch. He is a computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and also a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so clear that to read him is to experience the thrill of the highest level of discourse available on this planet and to understand it.

Peter Forbes, The Independent

This is Deutsch at his most ambitious, seeking to understand the implications of our scientific explanations of the world ... I enthusiastically recommend this rich, wide-ranging and elegantly written exposition of the unique insights of one of our most original intellectuals.

Michael Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement

David Deutsch...may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age.

Andrew Crumey, The Scotsman
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