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007707644 |
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20180722220648.0 |
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141029t20152015nyuaf b 001 0 eng d |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1594205264 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781594205262 : |
| Terms of availability |
$29.95 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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(OCoLC)894026160 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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YDXCP |
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eng |
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rda |
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YDXCP |
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OCLCQ |
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BTCTA |
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BDX |
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OCLCQ |
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NFG |
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NFGA |
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NFCA |
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| Classification number |
530.01 |
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W667 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Wilczek, Frank, |
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author. |
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274535 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A beautiful question : |
| Remainder of title |
finding nature's deep design / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Frank Wilczek. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York, New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
2015. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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©2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
430 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |
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illustrations (chiefly color) ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-409) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| 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? |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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. Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. In fact, every major advance in his career came from this intuition: to assume 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. As he reveals here, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who was the first to argue that "all things are number," to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. Yes: the world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.--From publisher description. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
Text in English. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Harmony of the spheres. |
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274536 |
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Physics |
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Philosophy. |
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43341 |
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Science |
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Aesthetics. |
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274537 |
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Adult Book |
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