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John D. Barrow

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

November 29, 1952

Died

September 26, 2020

Genre

Science, Nonfiction

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John D. Barrow was a professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He was awarded the 2006 Templeton Prize for "Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities" for his "writings about the relationship between life and the universe, and the nature of human understanding [which] have created new perspectives on questions of ultimate concern to science and religion".

He was a member of a United Reformed Church, which he described as teaching "a traditional deistic picture of the universe".
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	The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe 3.96 avg rating — 1,225 ratings — published 2000 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless 3.89 avg rating — 1,054 ratings — published 2005 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Origin of the Universe 3.73 avg rating — 557 ratings — published 1994 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Constants of Nature: The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe 3.73 avg rating — 536 ratings — published 2002 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World 3.44 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 2008 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits 3.94 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1998 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Theories of Everything really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 1991 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PI in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being 3.98 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 1992 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos 3.91 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2011 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow, John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler 3.95 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.”
― John D. Barrow, PI in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being

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“Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it

-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle”
― John D. Barrow, 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World

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“There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.”
― John D. Barrow, The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos

tags: cosmology, life, time, universe

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