Truth or Beauty
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Word Count
87,000 words, Guess
Page Count
348 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26151092M
- ISBN-139780300186611
- OCLC Control Number810947292
- OCLC Control Numbertruthorbeautysci0000orre
- Library of Congress Control Number2012941261
Classifications
- LCCQ175.32.A47
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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