Overview
- Addresses essential questions about the reach and power of science in describing and understanding the world
- An interdisciplinary adventure, combining the approaches of physics, philosophy and biology
- According to reviews of the German edition "A book no library should be without!"
- Author is an internationally renown physicist and philosopher of science
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Frontiers Collection (FRONTCOLL)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this thought-provoking book Küppers, an internationally renowned physicist, philosopher and theoretical biologist, addresses a number of science's deepest questions: Can physics advance to the origin of all things and explain the unique phenomena of life, time and history? Are there unsolvable enigmas of the world? How did life originate? Is language a general phenomenon of Nature? What is time? Is it possible to express the history of the world in formulae? Where is science leading us? These and other provocative questions essential for a deeper understanding of the world are treated here in a refreshing and stimulating manner.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bernd-Olaf Küppers, born in 1944, is an internationally renowned physicist and philosopher of science. For many years he was engaged in research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen). Thereafter, he was professor of natural philosophy at the university of Jena. His main research field is the origin and evolution of genetic information. He is author and editor of numerous books, including the monographs “Molecular Theory of Evolution” and “Information and the Origin of Life”. He has been recognized with, among other things, memberships of the German National Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea (London).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Computability of the World
Book Subtitle: How Far Can Science Take Us?
Authors: Bernd-Olaf Küppers
Translated by: Paul Woolley
Series Title: The Frontiers Collection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67369-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67367-7Published: 07 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88421-9Published: 01 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67369-1Published: 28 November 2017
Series ISSN: 1612-3018
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 200
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Popular Science in Physics, Complex Systems, Philosophy of Nature, Popular Life Sciences, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems