A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Autor Frank Wilczeken Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iul 2015 – vârsta de la 18 ani
Artists as well as scientists throughout humanhistory have pondered this beautiful question. With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, fromPlato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek sgroundbreaking work in quantum physics wasinspired by his intuition to look for a deeper orderof beauty in nature. In fact, every major advancein his career came from this intuition: to assumethat the universe embodies beautiful forms, formswhose hallmarks are symmetry harmony, balance, proportion and economy. There areother meanings of beauty, but this is the deeplogic of the universe and it is no accident thatit is also at the heart of what we find aestheticallypleasing and inspiring.
Wilczek is hardly alone among great scientistsin charting his course using beauty as his compass.As he reveals in "A Beautiful Question," this has beenthe heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, theancient Greek who was the first to argue that allthings are number, to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentiethcenturyphysics. Though the ancients weren tright about everything, their ardent belief in themusic of the spheres has proved true down to thequantum level. Indeed, Wilczek explores just howintertwined our ideas about beauty and art are withour scientific understanding of the cosmos.
Wilczek brings us right to the edge of knowledgetoday, where the core insights of even the craziestquantum ideas apply principles we all understand.The equations for atoms and light are almostliterally the same equations that govern musicalinstruments and sound; the subatomic particlesthat are responsible for most of our mass aredetermined by simple geometric symmetries. Theuniverse itself, suggests Wilczek, seems to want toembody beautiful and elegant forms. Perhaps thisforce is the pure elegance of numbers, perhaps thework of a higher being, or somewhere between.Either way, we don t depart from the infinite andinfinitesimal after all; we re profoundly connectedto them, and we connect them. When we find thatour sense of beauty is realized in the physical world, we are discovering something about the world, butalso something about ourselves.
Gorgeously illustrated, "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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781594205262
ISBN-10: 1594205264
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 163 x 244 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Penguin Press
ISBN-10: 1594205264
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 163 x 244 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Penguin Press
Notă biografică
Born
in
New
York,
Frank
Wilczek
studied
at
the
University
of
Chicago
and
gained
his
Ph.D.
in
physics
at
Princeton
University.
Frank
won
the
Nobel
Prize
in
Physics
in
2004
for
work
he
did
as
a
twenty-one-year-old
graduate
student.
His
writing
has
featured
twice
inBest
American
Science
Writingand
his
exposition
of
modern
physics,Longing
for
the
Harmonieswas
namedNew
York
TimesNotable
Book
of
the
Year.
Frank
is
currently
Herman
Feshbach
Professorship
of
Physics
at
MIT.
He
lives
in
Massachusetts,
with
his
wife,
Betsy
Devine.
Recenzii
A
truly
beautiful
book
...
Why
do
physicists
call
their
theories
beautiful?
Immerse
yourself
in
this
book,
wallow
in
it,
sit
back
and
relax
as
you
wander
through
it,
and
you'll
soon
understand.
Anyone who wants to see how science and transcendence can be compatible must read this book. Wilczek has caught the winds of change, and his thinking breaks through some sacred boundaries with curiosity, insight, and intellectual power.
Illuminating ... A fresh perspective on modern scientific thinking from an expert with a flair for jargon-free exposition ... Wilczek writesA Beautiful Questionwith bracing pizzazz ... Contains more beef than many a finely written scientific potboiler.
The first book I've read in which I've felt that almost vertiginous sensation of peering through layers of theories down to the true nature of the universe ... At times this is a challenging text, but it is well worth the effort. Wilczek is admirably clear in his explanations.
It's rare that scientists as brilliant as Wilczek give us a glimpse of what goes on inside their heads ... Expect to come away pretty dazzled.
[A] searching and earnest book ... The book of a love-struck physicist ...A Beautiful Questionis a meditation.
A Beautiful Questionis both a brilliant exploration of largely uncharted territories and a refreshingly idiosyncratic guide to developments in particle physics.
Wilczek's sheer pleasure in the beauty of mathematics is the engine and joy of this book ... [A] rewarding read ... There is a lot of food for the mind here, but also some for the eye.
[An] eccentrically brilliant book
Anyone who wants to see how science and transcendence can be compatible must read this book. Wilczek has caught the winds of change, and his thinking breaks through some sacred boundaries with curiosity, insight, and intellectual power.
Illuminating ... A fresh perspective on modern scientific thinking from an expert with a flair for jargon-free exposition ... Wilczek writesA Beautiful Questionwith bracing pizzazz ... Contains more beef than many a finely written scientific potboiler.
The first book I've read in which I've felt that almost vertiginous sensation of peering through layers of theories down to the true nature of the universe ... At times this is a challenging text, but it is well worth the effort. Wilczek is admirably clear in his explanations.
It's rare that scientists as brilliant as Wilczek give us a glimpse of what goes on inside their heads ... Expect to come away pretty dazzled.
[A] searching and earnest book ... The book of a love-struck physicist ...A Beautiful Questionis a meditation.
A Beautiful Questionis both a brilliant exploration of largely uncharted territories and a refreshingly idiosyncratic guide to developments in particle physics.
Wilczek's sheer pleasure in the beauty of mathematics is the engine and joy of this book ... [A] rewarding read ... There is a lot of food for the mind here, but also some for the eye.
[An] eccentrically brilliant book