A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design : Finding nature's deep design

Frank Wilczek

ISBN 10: 1846147018 / ISBN 13: 9781846147012

Published by Allen Lane, 2015

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Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - In this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pioneering work in quantum physics. As this book demonstrates, the human quest to find the beauty embodied in the universe connects all scientific pursuit from Pythagoras and Plato on to Galileo and Newton, Maxwell and Einstein. Indeed, Wilczek shows us just how deeply intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our scientific understanding of the cosmos. Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is the culmination of Wilczek's life work and a mind-expanding book that combines the age-old human quest for beauty and the age-old human quest for truth.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design : Finding nature's deep design
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846147018
• ISBN 13: 9781846147012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Well-illustrated
• Condition: Neu
• Weight: 807 grams

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Synopsis

In this 'long meditation on a single question', Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wilczek considers how ideas about beauty and art have always been intertwined with our scientific understanding of the cosmos. Taking as his starting-point Pythagoras' credo that 'all things are number', he follows the quest of figures such as Newton and Einstein who contributed to our present-day understanding of the equations and symmetries that reveal the fundamental purity, order and harmony of the entire universe.

About the Author

Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for work he did as a graduate student. His 1989 book, Longing for the Harmonies, was a New York Times notable book of the year. Wilczek is a regular contributor to Nature and Physics Today and his work has also been anthologized in Best American Science Writing and the Norton Anthology of Light Verse. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.