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Bezig met laden... Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry (2007)door Ian Stewart
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The author messed up. He frets aloud about giving us lay-readers too much math, and still apparently didn't get a layperson to edit it for him. He avoids giving us equations, choosing instead to explain mathematical ideas in words - but the words are jargon. He explains what a square root is, and then just a few pages later expects us to readily agree that the cubic x (to the third power) = 15x 4 has the obvious solution x = 4." It does?? Ok, Stewart, who is your audience? I love mathematical concepts, but I had to give up on this book. I did scan to the end to be sure, and it did get worse." Um livro fantástico sobre alguns conceitos matemáticos que foram a base da física moderna. Inicialmente inventados por loucos matemáticos que não sabiam para o que isso serviria, ou mesmo se algum dia suas invenções serviriam. Algumas partes românticas com matemáticos envolvidos em guerras e revoluções, disputas de amores e morte em duelos. Outras partes com o suspense de será que vai conseguir resolver? O livro tem alguns momentos muito difíceis onde explica as teorias da física quântica, cordas, supercordas, bósons e outras partículas, como tudo se encaixa nos modelos matemáticos e porque algumas teorias necessitam universos multidimensionais. Um livro que não decepciona os leitores mais exigentes de obras de divulgação científica pois desce até onde daria para quem não tem a base teórica dos que estudam os mesmos temas em custos especializados nas universidades. Minha recomendação é que não tenham medo, pois mesmo com alguns momentos que dão nó nos miolos, no final nos sentimos parte do seleto grupo que sabe mesmo que apenas um pouco sobre um tema que a maioria nada sabe. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Hidden in the heart of the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, and modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry." "Symmetry has been a key idea for artists, architects and musicians for centuries, but within mathematics it remained, until very recently, an arcane pursuit. In the twentieth century, however, symmetry emerged as central to the most fundamental ideas in physics and cosmology. Why Beauty Is Truth tells its history, from ancient Babylon to twenty-first century physics." "It is a peculiar history, and the mathematicians who contributed to symmetry's ascendancy mirror its fascinating puzzles and dramatic depth. We meet Girolamo Cardano, the Renaissance Italian rogue, scholar, and gambler who stole the modern method of solving cubic equations and published it in the first important book on algebra. We meet Evariste Galois, a young revolutionary who single-handedly refashioned the whole of mathematics by founding the field of group theory - only to die at age nineteen in a duel over a woman before publishing any of his work. Perhaps most curious is William Rowan Hamilton, who carved his most significant discovery into a stone bridge between bouts of alcoholic delirium." "Mathematician Ian Stewart tells the stories of these and other eccentric and occasionally tragic geniuses as he describes how symmetry grew into one of the most important ideas of modern science. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)539.725Natural sciences and mathematics Physics Matter; Molecular Physics; Atomic and Nuclear physics; Radiation; Quantum Physics Atomic and nuclear physics Particle PhysicsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Nonetheless, it was an entertaining read, and fairly quick at that. ( )