The Computability of the World: How Far Can Science Take Us? (Frontiers Collection)

The Computability of the World: How Far Can Science Take Us? (Frontiers Collection)

Bernd-Olaf Küppers, Paul Woolley (Translator)
$37.99
Publication Date: September 1st, 2018
Publisher:
Springer
ISBN:
9783319884219
Pages:
200
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Description

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

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).

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