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Author:

Wilczek, Frank.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

430 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Physics--Philosophy.
Science--Aesthetics.
Harmony of the spheres.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-409) and index.

Contents:

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?

ISBN:

1594205264
9781594205262

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894026160

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)