A beautiful question: finding nature's deep design
-- A Beautiful Question is amind-shifting book that braids the age-old questfor beauty and the age-old quest for truth into athrilling synthesis. It is a dazzling and importantwork from one of our best thinkers, whose humorand infectious sense of wonder animate every page. Yes: The world is a work of art, and its deepesttruths are ones we already feel, as if they weresomehow written in our souls.
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- Full title :A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design / Frank Wilczek.
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-- A Beautiful Question is amind-shifting book that braids the age-old questfor beauty and the age-old quest for truth into athrilling synthesis. It is a dazzling and importantwork from one of our best thinkers, whose humorand infectious sense of wonder animate every page. Yes: The world is a work of art, and its deepesttruths are ones we already feel, as if they weresomehow written in our souls.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780698195622, 0698195620, 9781846147029, 1846147026
- oclc:ocn907292308
- LC Classification:QC6
- Dewey Decimal:530.01
Table of Contents
The question -- Pythagoras I : thought and object -- Pythagoras II : number and harmony -- Plato I : structure from symmetry : Platonic solids -- Plato II : escaping the cave -- Newton I : method and madness -- Newton II : color -- Newton III : dynamic beauty -- Maxwell I : God's esthetics -- Maxwell II : the doors of perception -- Prelude to symmetry -- Quantum beauty I : music of the spheres -- Symmetry I : Einstein's two-step -- Quantum beauty II : exuberance -- Symmetry II : local color -- Quantum beauty III : beauty at the core of nature -- Symmetry III : Emmy Noether : time, energy, and sanity -- Quantum beauty IV : in beauty we trust -- A beautiful answer?
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