A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design

Wilczek, Frank. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9781594205262 :
ISBN: 1594205264
Physical Description: print
430 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color) ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2015.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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?