Truth Or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order
- ISBN-10
- 0300186614
- ISBN-13
- 9780300186611
- Category
- Mathematics
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-11-27
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- David Orrell
Description
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.
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