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What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge by Marcus du Sautoy [rare books]

What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge by Marcus du Sautoy [rare books]

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In this 2016 popular science exploration, Marcus du Sautoy guides readers through seven fundamental “edges” or boundaries of human knowledge—spanning the unpredictability of chaos (e.g., cannot predict how a die will land), the unknowable structure of the universe, the elusive nature of time and consciousness, and even the limitations embedded in mathematics itself via Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. In each chapter, he employs everyday analogies—like dice, cellos, or dice tosses—in tandem with cosmology, quantum physics, neuroscience, and philosophy, weaving interviews with experts and personal anecdotes (such as his own musical practice) to illuminate these profound unknowables. Ultimately, du Sautoy suggests that our awareness of what we cannot know can be as meaningful as the knowledge itself—and, in wrestling with these mysteries, he arrives at an agnostic reflection on whether absolute knowledge is achievable or perhaps even coherent.

About the Author –

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (born August 26, 1965, in London) is a distinguished British mathematician and science communicator who currently holds the Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. A Fellow of New College, Oxford, and a prolific author, his popular works include The Music of the Primes, Symmetry, The Creativity Code, and What We Cannot Know. Du Sautoy is celebrated for making complex mathematical and scientific concepts accessible to the public—he has hosted acclaimed TV documentaries (such as the BBC's The Story of Maths and Mind Games), written for major publications, and been honored with prestigious awards like the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday Prize (2009) and an OBE (2010) for his contributions to science communication

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