ISBN: 9780099983804    Publisher: Random House Year of publishing: 1992     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 240        Language: English

The Holy Grail of modern scientists is 'The Theory of Everything', which will contain all that can be known about the Universe - the magic formula that Einstein spent his life searching for and failed to find. In this elegant and exciting book, john Barrow challenges the quest for ultimate explanation.
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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, 'and' New Theories of Everything,' and 100 'Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know'. He is also the author of the award-winning play 'Infinities'.
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