Recommended thought-provoking books
Here is a list of some popular science books I recently read, and that I highly recommend for having a good thinking time about the puzzling reality of existence!
- "Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits" by John D. Barrow (Department of Applied Mathematics
and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK, 304 pages, Vintage, ISBN 0099772116 , Revised, 2005.
- "Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can't Do" by David Harel (The Weizmann Institute of Science
), 240 pages, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198604424, Revised paperback, 2003.
- "The Road to Reality", by Roger Penrose (Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford), 1136 pages, Knopf, ISBN 0679454438 , 2005.
- "What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Cambridge University Press) Canto, paperback, 194 pages,ISBN 0521427088, reprinted, 1992.
- "The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications" by David Deutsch (Centre for Quantum Computation at the University of Oxford, UK), Paperback, 400 pages,
Penguin (Non-Classics), ISBN 014027541X, 1998.
- "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible" by Arthur C. Clarke (), Paperback, 256 pages, Phoenix,
ISBN 0575402776, Reprinted, 2000.
Frank Nielsen, Frank.Nielsen@acm.org.