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Review : Tales from way back when
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Battle of the giants: The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, Princeton University Press, £16.95/$24.95, ISBN 0 691 03791 4
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Review: In pursuit of fundamental law
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Review: Patterns emerging from a complex world
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Shaking the foundations of mathematics: There are many interpretations of mathematics. The one we use has proved itself. But what would happen to our view of the Universe if we experimented with another?
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Review: Complexity is the measure of modernity
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Platonic relationships in the Universe?: Some scientists follow the Platonic tradition, seeing the Universe as basically simple and symmetrical. Others take the Aristotelian view that it is complicated and random. Who is right?
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Review: Immortal, invisible, not really there?
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Review: Blow-up models of our Universe
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Specialist Review: Inflation and the other big bang
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Review: Ironing out the wrinkles of space-time
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Where the wild things are / Review of ‘The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Sciences of Complexity’ by Heinz R. Pagels, Bantam, New York, pp 352, $9.95
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