The End(s) of Knowledge
Michael Yampolsky
Sep 2025 · Springer Nature
Ebook
104
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About this ebook
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.
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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.
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About the author
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.
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