Are there really laws of nature out there still waiting to be discovered? Or are they simply illusions? The Universe that Discovered Itself is a re-titled and wholly revised ...

Are there some things we can never think, or know, let alone do? In this fascinating book, acclaimed author John Barrow reveals the often paradoxical limits on knowledge and ...

Applies recent scientific research to the oldest theories of existence and explains how time, space, and matter were created, in a nontechnical language

What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil ...

For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ...

Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? The quest for the ...

Discusses the history and nature of mathematics, describes the origins of counting, and looks at the individuals who have made important mathematical discoveries