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

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...

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Main Author: Wilczek, Frank (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
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Table of 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.