WHAT WE CANNOT KNOW: EXPLORATIONS AT THE EDGE OF KNOWLEDGE (US TITLE: THE GREAT UNKNOWN: SEVEN JOURNEYS TO THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE)
Book ID/图书代码： 05380013B64805
English Summary/英文概要： Every week, headlines announce new breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe, new technologies that will transform our environment, new medical advances that will extend our lives. Science is giving us unprecedented insight into some of the big questions that have challenged humanity ever since we’ve been able to formulate those questions. Where did we come from? What is the ultimate destiny of the universe? What are the building blocks of the physical world? What is consciousness?
But are there limits to human knowledge? Is there anything that we truly cannot know?
Taking us to the edges of our knowledge, Marcus du Sautoy explores the questions to which we may never know the answers. From our inability to predict the physical world to the true size of our universe to what potentially came before the big bang and whether or not God exists are just some of the mysteries neither physics nor mathematics can adequately explain. Or can they? Du Sautoy expertly takes us to the borders of human knowledge while probing the latest and potentially groundbreaking theory of everything that just might have our answers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 每个星期都有头条宣布我们对宇宙的理解有了新的突破，新技术将改变我们的环境，新的医学进展将延长我们的生命。科学对那些从我们制定出来就挑战人类的大问题作出了前所未有的洞察到。我们从哪里来？什么是宇宙的终极命运？什么是物理世界的基石？什么是意识？
人类的知识有限制吗？有什么是我们真正不知道的？
马库斯•杜•索托伊带领我们走进知识的边缘，探索我们可能永远不会知道答案的问题。从我们无法预测的物理世界到我们宇宙的真实大小到大爆炸之前存在什么以及上帝是否存在是神学问题，它既不是物理也不是数学可以解释的。但是它们或许可以解释呢？马库斯•杜•索托伊熟练地将我们带入人类知识的疆界，来探索最新的和潜在的理论创新，或许我们会得到自己的答案。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：‘Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting’ Bill Bryson
‘I felt I was being carried off on a wonderful journey, a thrilling research expedition to the teasing and mysterious boundaries of scientific knowledge, and I never wanted to turn back. Du Sautoy is a masterful and friendly guide to these remotest regions … It is absolutely fascinating throughout, and I really loved it’ Richard Holmes
‘I admire and envy the clarity and authority with which Marcus du Sautoy addresses a range of profound issues. His book deserves a wide readership’ Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
About the Author/作者介绍： 马库斯•杜•索托伊现为英国皇家学会的研究员，被英国独立报评为英国领先的科学家之一。他也是剑桥大学纯数学系的成员及牛津大学万灵学院的成员。他被选为40岁以下的100个最有影响力的人物之一 ，并于2006年做了英国皇家学会圣诞节讲座。他是《质数的奥秘》和《寻找月光》的作者。Marcus du Sautoy is currently a Research Fellow at the Royal Society and has been named by the Independent on Sunday as one of the UK’s leading scientists; he is also a member of Dept of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge and a fellow of All Souls, Oxford. He writes for The Times and The Guardian, presents Mind Games on BBC4, was chosen as one of Esquire’s 100 most influential men under 40, and gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2006. He is the author of The Music of the Primes and Finding Moonshine.
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