A Beautiful Question. Finding Nature's Deep Design

Frank Wilczek, Frank Wilczek

ISBN 10: 0718199464 / ISBN 13: 9780718199463

Published by Penguin Pr, 2016

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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universeIn this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe. As the quest to find the beauty embodied in the universe has connected all scientific pursuit, from Pythagoras to Einstein, Wilczek shows us just how deeply intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our understanding of the cosmos. A Beautiful Question is a mind-expanding book combining the age-old human quest for beauty with the age-old human quest for truth.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Beautiful Question. Finding Nature's Deep Design
• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718199464
• ISBN 13: 9780718199463
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics and natural sciences: general

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Beautiful Question

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.