Name: A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
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Author: Frank Wilczek
ISBN: 9780143109365

portada A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

Type

Physical Book

Author

Frank Wilczek

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1x13.7x2.8 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780143109365

Synopsis "A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design "

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. 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. Wilczek is hardly alone among great scientists in charting his course using beauty as his compass. As he reveals in A Beautiful Question, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras and the ancient belief in the music of the spheres to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Wilczek brings us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand. The equations for atoms and light are almost the same ones that govern musical instruments and sound; the subatomic particles that are responsible for most of our mass are determined by simple geometric symmetries. 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. It is a dazzling and important work from one of our best thinkers, whose humor and infectious sense of wonder animate every page. 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.

Frank Wilczek

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Frank Anthony Wilczek es un físico teórico estadounidense nacido en Mineola, Nueva York, en 1951, considerado una de las figuras más influyentes de la física contemporánea. Formado en la Universidad de Chicago y doctorado en la Universidad de Princeton bajo la dirección de David Gross, realizó contribuciones fundamentales a la cromodinámica cuántica, la teoría que describe la interacción fuerte entre las partículas subatómicas. A lo largo de su carrera ha estado vinculado a instituciones de prestigio como el Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts (MIT), donde desarrolló gran parte de su labor investigadora. Su trabajo se distingue por combinar profundidad científica con una notable capacidad para comunicar ideas complejas a públicos no especializados.

Entre sus obras verificadas destacan Las diez claves de la realidad (Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality), A Beautiful Question y The Lightness of Being. En estos libros explora cuestiones relacionadas con la naturaleza de la materia, el origen de las leyes físicas y la relación entre ciencia, belleza y conocimiento. En reconocimiento a sus aportes a la comprensión de las fuerzas fundamentales de la naturaleza, recibió el Premio Nobel de Física en 2004, compartido con David Gross y H. David Politzer por el descubrimiento de la libertad asintótica en la teoría de las interacciones fuertes.

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