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18774198 |
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OSt |
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20211020151008.0 |
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150908s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng d |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2015288202 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780143109365 (pbk.) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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(OCoLC)ocn894026160 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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YDXCP |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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IISERB |
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rda |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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lccopycat |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QC6 |
| Item number |
.W5765 2015 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
530.1 W643B |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Wilczek, Frank. |
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27284 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Beautiful question : |
| Remainder of title |
finding nature's deep design |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Frank Wilczek. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
430 pages : |
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illustrations (chiefly color) ; |
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25 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-409) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. In fact, every major advance in his career came from this intuition: to assume that the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry--harmony, balance, proportion--and economy. There are other meanings of "beauty," but this is the deep logic of the universe--and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring. As he reveals here, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who was the first to argue that "all things are number," to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. Yes: the world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.--From publisher description. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Physics |
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Philosophy. |
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27285 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Science |
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Aesthetics. |
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27286 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Harmony of the spheres. |
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27287 |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Books |
