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Author Livio, Mario, 1945-

Title Is God a mathematician? / Mario Livio.

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1325770~S1
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Description x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-291) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?
Subject Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematicians -- Psychology.
Discoveries in science.
ISBN 9780743294058
074329405X
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