Is God a mathematician?
Record details
- ISBN: 9780743294065
- ISBN: 0743294068
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Physical Description:
x, 308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2010], c2009
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-291) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A mystery -- Mystics : the numerologist and the philsopher -- Magicians : the master and the heretic -- Magicians : the skeptic and the giant -- Statisticians and probabilists : the science of uncertainty -- Geometers : future shock -- Logicians : thinking about reasoning -- Unreasonable effectiveness? -- On the human mind, mathematics, and the universe. |
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Subject: | Discoveries in science Mathematicians Psychology Logic, Symbolic and mathematical Mathematics Philosophy |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | QA 8.4 .L586 2010 | 30775305448814 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Is God a Mathematician?
Mario Livio was born in 1945 in Romania. When he was 5 years old, he immigrated with his grandparents to Israel. He received undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a M.Sc. degree in theoretical particle physics at the Weizmann Institute, and a Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics at Tel-Aviv University. He was a professor of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology from 1981 until 1991. He is a senior astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute. He has published over 400 scientific papers. He has also written several books including The Accelerating Universe, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, Is God a Mathematician?, and Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe. The Golden Ratio received the International Pythagoras Prize and the Peano Prize. (Bowker Author Biography)