Varieties of limits to scientific knowledge

✍ Scribed by Piet Hut; David Ruelle; Joseph Traub

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 104 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1076-2787
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0526(199807/08)3:6<33::aid-cplx5>3.0.co;2-l

✦ Synopsis

for Advanced Study in Princeton. While his main research area is theoretical astrophysics, he is frequently invovled in multidisciplinary collaborations, from geology, paleontology and cognitive science to particle physics and computer science. He is currently involved in a Tokyo-based project aimed at developing a special purpose computer for simulations in stellar dynamics, with a speed of 1 Petaflops.