Dustwrapper, printed paper covered boards, pp.430. Illustrated, inc colour plates. A study of the symmetry, harmony, balance and proportion of design at all levels of the universe. The author won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2004. Dustwrapper is a little shelfworn and has a tiny creased split to the central circular cut out on the cover. One or two faint and small marks to cover. Binding bright and sound but book leans slightly to right. Contents clean and tight. VG / VG.

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Title: A Beautiful Question. Finding Nature`s Deep Design
Publisher: Allen Lane, London
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1846147018
ISBN 13: 9781846147012
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Well-illustrated
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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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.

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