Dimensions
162 x 237 x 21mm
Are there some problems we can't solve? Boundaries we can't exceed? Well, yes.
Presenting eight significant examples, Dewdney shows how these limitations, rather than acting as dead ends, actually enrich the pursuit of science and math. In 'Beyond Reason', internationally acclaimed math and science author A K Dewdney examines eight insurmountable mathematical and scientific roadblocks that have stumped thinkers across the centuries, from ancient mathematical conundrums such as "squaring the circle," first attempted by the Pythagoreans, to Godel's vexing theorem, from perpetual motion to the unpredictable behaviour of chaotic systems such as the weather."
