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A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design, Frank Wilczek
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- Summary
- Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. In fact, every major advance in his career came from this intuition: to assume that the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry--harmony, balance, proportion--and economy. There are other meanings of "beauty," but this is the deep logic of the universe--and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring. As he reveals here, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who was the first to argue that "all things are number," to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. Yes: the world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 430 pages
- Contents
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- User's manual
- 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?
- Acknowledgements
- Timelines
- Terms of art
- Notes
- Recommended reading
- Illustration credits
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780143109365
- Label
- A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design
- Title
- A beautiful question
- Title remainder
- finding nature's deep design
- Statement of responsibility
- Frank Wilczek
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. In fact, every major advance in his career came from this intuition: to assume that the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry--harmony, balance, proportion--and economy. There are other meanings of "beauty," but this is the deep logic of the universe--and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring. As he reveals here, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who was the first to argue that "all things are number," to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. Yes: the world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wilczek, Frank
- Dewey number
- 530.01
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QC6
- LC item number
- .W5765 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Physics
- Science
- Harmony of the spheres
- Harmony of the spheres
- Physics
- Science
- Physik
- Philosophie
- Harmonie
- Schönheit
- Fysik
- Filosofi
- Label
- A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design, Frank Wilczek
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-409) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- User's manual -- 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? -- Acknowledgements -- Timelines -- Terms of art -- Notes -- Recommended reading -- Illustration credits -- Index
- Control code
- 894026160
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 430 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143109365
- Lccn
- 2015288202
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)894026160
- Label
- A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design, Frank Wilczek
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-409) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- User's manual -- 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? -- Acknowledgements -- Timelines -- Terms of art -- Notes -- Recommended reading -- Illustration credits -- Index
- Control code
- 894026160
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 430 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143109365
- Lccn
- 2015288202
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)894026160
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