Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order

David Orrell

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Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order

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

Media	Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released	November 27, 2012
ISBN13	9780300186611
Publishers	Yale University Press
Pages	356
Dimensions	160 × 234 × 28 mm · 598 g
Language	English

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