Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order
by David Orrell
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0300186614
- ISBN 13
- 9780300186611
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Hardback. New. 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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- Bookseller
- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B9780300186611
- Title
- Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order
- Author
- David Orrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300186614
- ISBN 13
- 9780300186611
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- This edition first published
- 2012-11
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