20% off all books with the code: BOOKS
  • check 10+ million books
  • check New arrivals every day
  • check Trusted by 1M+ customers
  • check Great prices & discounts
  • check Shipping across Europe

Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability -

English
2021-08-21
€108.40 €135.50

-20% with code BOOKS

In stock at our supplier

Shipping in 17-23 days

30-day return policy

For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true. They could discern what math corresponds to physical laws, and use those laws to predict anything that happens before it happens. That time has passed. Gödel¿s undecidability results (the incom ... Full description

You May Also Like

Description

For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true. They could discern what math corresponds to physical laws, and use those laws to predict anything that happens before it happens. That time has passed. Gödel¿s undecidability results (the incompleteness theorems), Turing¿s proof of non-computable values, the formulation of quantum theory, chaos, and other developments over the past century have shown that there are rigorous arguments limiting what we can prove, compute, and predict. While some connections between these results have come to light, many remain obscure, and the implications are unclear. Are there, for example, real consequences for physics ¿ including quantum mechanics ¿ of undecidability and non-computability? Are there implications for our understanding of the relations between agency, intelligence, mind, and the physical world? This book, based on the winning essays from the annual FQXi competition, contains ten explorations of Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability. The contributions abound with connections, implications, and speculations while undertaking rigorous but bold and open-minded investigation of the meaning of these constraints for the physical world, and for us as humans.¿

More Information

Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
Series The Frontiers Collection
Release year 2021
Cover type Hardcover
EAN 9783030703530
Write Your Own Review
You're reviewing: Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability
Your Rating:

Goodreads Reviews

€108.40 €135.50