Table of Contents

1: Tales of the unexpected
2: The impact of evolution
3: Size, life, and landscape
4: The heavens and the Earth
5: The natural history of noise
6: All's well that ends well

About the Author

Professor John D. Barrow, FRS, is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millenium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge. His principal area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including The Left Hand of Creation, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, The Infinite
Book: a short guide to the boundless, timeless and endless and most recently, 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know: Maths Explains Your World.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition an engaging book ... practically a universal education in both the history of modern science and the history of the Universe ... will be much quoted, much debated and much praised'
Nature
`a feast: the kind of book which tells you everything you want to know about everything'
The Economist
`I was infuriated by it, disagreed with it and loved reading it.'
Timothy Ferris, New York Times Book Review
`in the speculative and intellectual richness of its pages, this book is probably unsurpassed'
Peter Atkins
`a masterly exposition of what seems bound to become one of the most important developments to have taken place in physical science'
TLS
`Intriguing analysis of new scientific thinking.'
Sydney Times
`unique and wide-ranging book ... The reader is taken on an eclectic study of many scientific disciplines and is presented with a revealing picture of the structure of the physical world solely in terms of its invariant constants. There are also fascinating chapters on the definition and nature of life, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence and the interpretation of quantum theory in relation to the existence of observers.'
Europe & Astronomy 1992
..it is consistently diverting and illuminating and indeed, at its best, hard to put down in its communication of the excitement of seeing the world as an exercise in the mathematics of energy. Hugh Lawson-Tancred, The Spectator, on lBetween Inner Space and Outer Space
Barrow is emerging as the Stephen Jay Gould of the mathematical sciences. These fluent and erudite essays should further enhance his reputation. Professor Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, on Between Inner Space and Outer Space