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Truth or beauty : science and the quest for order
- Title
- Truth or beauty : science and the quest for order / David Orrell.
- Author
- Orrell, David.
- Publication
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-8246 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 348 p. : ill.; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Science and the quest for order
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-337) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Infatuation -- Harmony -- Integrity -- Radiance -- pt. 2. Complication -- The crooked universe -- The masculine philosophy -- Unity -- Broken mirrors -- pt. 3. Maturation -- The shadow world -- The virtual universe -- The left-hander's guide to the cosmos.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-8246
- ISBN
- 9780300186611 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300186614 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012941261
- OCLC
- 810947292
- Author
- Orrell, David.
- Title
- Truth or beauty : science and the quest for order / David Orrell.
- Imprint
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-337) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-8246