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Impossibility : The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits
Barrow, John D.
ISBN 13: 9780099772118
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1999
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John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge.
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