"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 ... [and examine Wilczek's intuition that] the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry--harmony, balance, proportion--and economy. There are other meanings of beauty, but this is the deep logic of the universe--and it is no ...
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"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 ... [and examine Wilczek's intuition that] the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry--harmony, balance, proportion--and economy. There are other meanings of beauty, but this is the deep logic of the universe--and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring"--Amazon.com.
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The effort to find the beauty in nature via the analysis of the work of famous physicists is praiseworthy, but it doesn't always work, particularly when the book becomes a textbook.
