The Book of Nothing : Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe无之书: 万物由何而生基本信息Author：John D. BarrowFormat：Paperback | 400 pagesDimensions：129 x 198 x 25mm | 277gPublication date：05 Jul 2001Publisher：Vintage UKLanguage：EnglishISBN10：0099288451ISBN13：9780099288459页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准书籍简介你如何开始理解“无”的概念?它从哪里开始，又在哪里结束?从数学家的零到哲学家的空虚，从莎士比亚到空的集合，从以太到量子真空，从存在与虚无到无中生有，在事物的核心，无中生有太多的麻烦。最近天文学上令人激动的发现揭示了真空的性质及其对宇宙解释的戏剧性影响。这本非凡的书涵盖了“虚无”的每一个角落和缝隙，揭示了在人类探索的每一个领域，人类的大脑是如何从“虚无”中创造出一些东西的。Ho ... 展开完整描述 ▼
The Book of Nothing : Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
无之书: 万物由何而生
基本信息
Author：John D. Barrow
Format：Paperback | 400 pages
Dimensions：129 x 198 x 25mm | 277g
Publication date：05 Jul 2001
Publisher：Vintage UK
Language：English
ISBN10：0099288451
ISBN13：9780099288459
页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准
书籍简介
你如何开始理解“无”的概念?
它从哪里开始，又在哪里结束?
从数学家的零到哲学家的空虚，从莎士比亚到空的集合，从以太到量子真空，从存在与虚无到无中生有，在事物的核心，无中生有太多的麻烦。
最近天文学上令人激动的发现揭示了真空的性质及其对宇宙解释的戏剧性影响。这本非凡的书涵盖了“虚无”的每一个角落和缝隙，揭示了在人类探索的每一个领域，人类的大脑是如何从“虚无”中创造出一些东西的。
How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing?
Where does it begin and where does it end?
From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, from being and nothingness to creatio ex nihilo, there is much ado about nothing at the heart of things.
Recent exciting discoveries in astronomy are shown to shed new light on the nature of the vacuum and its dramatic effect upon the explanation of the Universe. This remarkable book ranges over every nook and cranny of nothingness to reveal how the human mind has had to make something of nothing in every field of human enquiry.
作者简介
约翰·D·巴罗是数学科学教授，剑桥大学千年数学项目主任，剑桥大学克莱尔霍尔研究员，皇家学会研究员，现任伦敦格雷欣学院格雷欣几何教授。他的主要科学研究领域是宇宙学，他写了许多备受赞誉的书，内容涉及物理学、天文学和数学的现代发展的性质和意义，包括《宇宙的起源》《发现自己的宇宙》《无之书》《自然的常量》《无限之书：一个通向无限、永恒和无尽的简短指南》《巧妙的宇宙扩张》《万物的新理论》以及《宇宙意象》。
John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the current Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. His principal area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including The Origin of the Universe, The Universe that Discovered Itself; The Book of Nothing, The Constants of Nature, The Infinite Book: a Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, The Artful Universe Expanded, New Theories of Everything, and Cosmic Imagery.
