Books written by Frank Wilczek
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Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics
of Mars led him to abandon centuries of precedent , and years of his own previous work , and propose that the planets move in ellipses rather than in perfect circles . Is the vision of Pythagoras and the Orphics , Kepler's obsession ...
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
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.
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
A Beautiful Question is a mind-expanding book combining the age-old human quest for beauty with the age-old human quest for truth.
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
“Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year.
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Radioactive Transformations
This new edition features a comprehensive introduction by Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek which engagingly explains how Rutherford's early research led to a better understanding of topics as diverse as the workings of the atom's nucleus, the ...
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
“Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year.
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Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm
Commentary for Selected Papers of J. Robert Schrieffer: In Celebration of His 70th Birthday, eds. N. E. Bonesteel and L. P. Gor'kov, World Scientific, 2003, pp. 135-152. cond-mat/0206122 [MIT-CTP-3275]. 359 Some Basic Aspects of ...
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration ...
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Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics
Explores ten major themes of physics--including the nature of reality, the uniformity of nature's building blocks, and the centrality of symmetry--and, through a series of variations, show how one simple idea can generate many ...
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Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm
The fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek.
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The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers
Extraordinarily readable and authoritative, The Lightness of Being is the first book to unwrap these exciting new ideas for the general public.
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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
This new understanding of mass explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity, and a gorgeous unification of all the forces comes sharply into focus.The Lightness of Being is the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ...
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
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.