A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design
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Main title:
A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design / by Frank Wilczek
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Imprint:
London Allen Lane. 2015
Collation:
430 pages 32 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (mostly colour)
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
ISBN:
9781846147012 (hardback)
Dewey class:
530.01 BEA
Local class:
530.01
Language:
English
BRN:
25261
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Penrith | Nonfiction | 530.01 BEA | hbkAvailable |
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