Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order - David Orrell - Books - Yale University Press - 9780300186611 - November 27, 2012
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David Orrell
Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order

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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.

304 pages, 15 black-&-white illustrations

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Released November 27, 2012
ISBN13 9780300186611
Publishers Yale University Press
Pages 356
Dimensions 160 × 234 × 28 mm   ·   580 g
Language English  

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