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商品描述
Can science understand literally everything? Can every mystery of nature eventually be explained given enough research attention and generous funding? Will our knowledge, supplemented by the power of AI, keep growing without bounds? Can truth be found in every raging academic debate?
Much of the development of modern mathematics has been shaped -- consciously or not -- by trying to answer these questions. This book is meant to be an accessible and, hopefully, amusing exploration of the basic and fundamental mathematical principles that limit what can be known and understood. These principles demarcate the boundary fence of science which neither a human nor an artificial mind can see beyond.商品描述(中文翻譯)
科學能否理解字面上的一切？在足夠的研究關注和慷慨的資金支持下，是否每一個自然之謎最終都能被解釋？我們的知識，輔以人工智慧的力量，是否會無限增長？在每一場激烈的學術辯論中，真理能否被找到？
現代數學的發展在很大程度上是受到這些問題的影響——無論是有意還是無意。
本書旨在提供一個易於理解且希望能引人發笑的探索，關於限制可知和可理解的基本和根本數學原則。這些原則劃定了科學的邊界，無論是人類還是人工智慧的思維都無法超越。
作者簡介
Michael Yampolsky is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, who is almost, but not quite, entirely not an expert in the subject of this book.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
邁克爾·揚波斯基（Michael Yampolsky）是多倫多大學的數學教授，他幾乎，但並不完全，是本書主題的專家。
