Did You Read The Beginning of Infinity?

Did You Read It? takes on The Beginning of Infinity by the physicist David Deutsch: Washington's first veto, in 1792, was over how to round seats in Congress, and no fair rounding rule can exist, proved in 1975; colour television was supposed to die for lack of europium, and today's screens use none. The thesis: problems are soluble, and each fix breeds the next.

The Beginning of Infinity, a 2011 book by the physicist David Deutsch, argues that all progress comes from the search for good explanations and that nothing in nature limits it: chapter thirteen shows that Washington's first veto in 1792 was over how to round seats in Congress and that no fair rounding rule can exist, proved in 1975, and chapter seventeen tells how colour television was supposed to die for lack of the element europium, yet today's screens use none.

On the book: The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

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