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Proven impossible: elementary proofs of profound impossibility from Arrow, Bell, Chaitin, Gödel, Turing and more
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (2023)
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Written for any motivated reader with a high-school knowledge of mathematics, and the discipline to follow logical arguments, this book presents the proofs for revolutionary impossibility theorems in an accessible way, with less jargon and notation, and more background, intuition, examples, explanations, and exercises.
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