Is God a Mathematician?

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Mario Livio 1945年出生于罗马尼亚,1950年定居以色列,耶路撒冷希伯莱大学本科毕业,魏兹曼科学院硕士,特拉维夫大学博士。多年来从事天体物理研究,1981 年~1991年任以色列理工学院物理学教授,而后加入美国马里兰州巴尔的摩市的哈勃太空望远镜研究所,现任该所外展服务部门负责人。他所著的The Golden Ratio曾获国际毕达哥拉斯奖和佩亚诺奖,The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved和The Accelerating Universe等著作也都在《自然》、《经济学家》、《科学》等权威期刊上得到极高的评价。

出版者:Simon & Schuster
作者:Mario Livio
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页数:320
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出版时间:2009-01-06
价格:USD 26.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780743294058
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Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world. More than that -- mathematics has often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true. Is mathematics ultimately invented or discovered? If, as Einstein insisted, mathematics is "a product of human thought that is independent of experience," how can it so accurately describe and even predict the world around us? Mathematicians themselves often insist that their work has no practical effect. The British mathematician G. H. Hardy went so far as to describe his own work this way: "No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world." He was wrong. The Hardy-Weinberg law allows population geneticists to predict how genes are transmitted from one generation to the next, and Hardy's work on the theory of numbers found unexpected implications in the development of codes. Physicist and author Mario Livio brilliantly explores mathematical ideas from Pythagoras to the present day as he shows us how intriguing questions and ingenious answers have led to ever deeper insights into our world. This fascinating book will interest anyone curious about the human mind, the scientific world, and the relationship between them.

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