Truth or beauty : science and the quest for order / David Orrell.
- Orrell, David
- Date:
- 2012
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Science and the quest for order
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.
Publication/Creation
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
Physical description
348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineAAB /ORROpen shelves
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ISBN
- 0300186614
- 9780300186611