A beautiful question

A beautiful question: finding nature's deep design

by Wilczek, Frank

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A respected physicist presents a survey of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present, that explore how intertwined ideas about beauty and art are with scientific understandings of the cosmos.

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  • Full title :A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design / Frank Wilczek.

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A respected physicist presents a survey of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present, that explore how intertwined ideas about beauty and art are with scientific understandings of the cosmos.

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  • Publication Date:2015.

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  • Description:430 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781594205262, 1594205264
  • oclc:ocn941900524
  • LC Classification:QC6
  • Dewey Decimal:530.01 WIL

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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Subjects

Harmony of the spheres Physics -- Philosophy Physique -- Philosophie Science -- Aesthetics Sciences -- Esthétique

Writers

Wilczek, Frank

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