The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
Graham Farmelo
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
Graham Farmelo
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Positive
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Pan
Rave
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Mixed
Pan
Farmelo deftly retraces the growing realisation that maths can unlock understanding of real phenomena.
In the years after World War II, both physics and mathematics grew and flourished without paying much attention to each other, and it was not until the late 1960s that the fields began drawing closer once again, shaping each other’s agendas in surprising ways. Mr. Farmelo tells the story of their convergence with a keen eye for anecdotes, and the excitement of an eyewitness to an intellectual revolution.
A book on the role of mathematics in scientific discovery that contains little math seems a stretch, but Farmelo...easily brings it off.