Truth or Beauty

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. The author also shows how the ancient Greeks constructed a concept of the world based on musical harmony.

Year

2012

Language

English

Publisher

Yale University Press

Editions

3

Pages

348

ISBN

9780300186611

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