The Universe Speaks in Numbers - How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

Informationen zum Autor Graham Farmelo is a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and an Affiliate Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He edited the best-selling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Award and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize. Klappentext Winner of the 2012 Kelvin Prize Farmelo explores the relationship between maths and physics, drawing on time spent with the cutting-edge mathematicians exploring the fabric of reality, including Freeman Dyson and Michael Atiyah. A groundbreaking exploration of how the interplay of physics and mathematics has enriched our understanding of the universe - essential reading for anyone who wants to grasp how physicists are attempting, in Stephen Hawking's words, to 'know the mind of God'. Zusammenfassung A groundbreaking exploration of how the interplay of physics and mathematics has enriched our understanding of the universe - essential reading for anyone who wants to grasp how physicists are attempting, in Stephen Hawking's words, to 'know the mind of God'.

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I am overcome with admiration for its range and profundity. An amazing achievement. Michael Frayn

Product details

• Authors: Graham Farmelo, Farmelo Graham
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.01.2021
• EAN: 9780571321827
• ISBN: 978-0-571-32182-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; popular science, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, History of Science, Physics, Mathematical physics, Popular and recreational mathematics