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Truth or Beauty

Name: Truth or Beauty
Brand: Yale University Press
SKU: 01203846
Price: 83.79 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: David Orrell
ISBN: 9780300186611

David Orrell

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Inglese

Libro Rigido

Codice Libristo: 01203846

Casa editrice Yale University Press, novembre 2012

In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises... Descrizione completa

Codice Libristo: 01203846

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In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have inspired - and have sometimes misled - scientists attempting to understand nature. Orrell shows how the ancient Greeks constructed a concept of the world based on musical harmony; then later thinkers replaced this model with a programme, based on Newton's "rational mechanics", to reduce the universe to a few simple equations. He next turns to current physical theories, such as supersymmetric string theory - again influenced by deep aesthetic principles. The book sheds new light on historical investigations and also recent research, including the examinations ongoing at the Large Hadron Collider. Finally, broadening his discussion to other fields of research, including economics, architecture, and health, Orrell questions whether these aesthetic principles reflect an accurate way to explain and understand the structure of our world.