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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.
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Science, Aesthetics, History, Mathematical physics, Science, mathematics, Science, history, Science, philosophy, Esthetics, Beauty, Sciences, Esthétique, Histoire, Naturwissenschaften, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Weltbild, Ordnungsideal, Mathematical models, Philosophy, Truth (Aesthetics), Modèles mathématiques, Philosophie, Vérité (Esthétique)Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order
2012, Yale University Press
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Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order
2012, Oxford University Press
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