THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY: EXPLANATIONS THAT TRANSFORM THE WORLD

Book ID/图书代码： 03848007B13896

English Summary/英文概要： A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today’s great thinkers.

Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life’s mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavor. This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach, according to Deutsch: we are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve.

In his previous book, The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch describe the four deepest strands of existing knowledge-the theories of evolution, quantum physics, knowledge, and computation-arguing jointly they reveal a unified fabric of reality. In this new book, he applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species. Filled with startling new conclusions about human choice, optimism, scientific explanation, and the evolution of culture, The Beginning of Infinity is a groundbreaking book that will become a classic of its kind.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本書是當今最偉大的思想家對於自然和知識發展的深度透視和探索。

縱觀歷史，人類一直致力於瞭解生命的奧秘。在量子計算領域屢獲殊榮的先驅大衛.多伊奇，在這部重要的最新作品中指出，宇宙中存在一個基本位置，它們有無窮的機會和能量以促成變化，而使這些變化得以改進不僅是科學家而是所有人類的成功嘗試所堅持的調節原則。大衛. 多伊奇指出，我們是受物理規律約束的，但是此約束又有一個我們無法企及的上限，人類只能逐步提高和改進，但卻永遠無法最終理解、控制和到達。

在大衛之前的作品《現實構造》（The Fabric of Reality）中，他描述了進化、量子物理、知識以及計算並揭示了它們內部統一的現實構造。在本書中，大衛致力於很多現今人類尚未解決的問題：從創造力到自由意志，再到人類物種的起源和未來，對於人類選擇、樂觀主義、科學解釋以及文化演變都有著令人震驚的新結論和新觀點。《無限之起點》堪稱同類作品當中的經典之作。(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY will be No.15 in the New York Times bestseller list to appear on September 6

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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 …This is the great Life, the Universe and Everything book for our time and the answer is not 42: it is infinity. To understand precisely what Deutsch means by this, you will have to read him. Do so and lose your parochial blinkers forever.---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

About the Author/作者介绍： 大衛.多伊奇因其量子計算的開創性首印而贏得國際美譽，是英國牛津大學克拉倫登實驗室量子計算與密碼學研究組的成員。
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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