| Description |
viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in 2022 by Allen Lane, Great Britain"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A chapter that is not a number -- Big numbers. 1.000000000000000858 -- A bolt of reality -- The challenger deep -- A glimpse into the abyss -- A googol -- The tales of Gerard Grant -- The entropic captor -- A Googleplex -- The quantum sorcerer -- Where is your doppelgänger? -- Graham's number -- Black hole head death -- Too much information -- Think of a number -- Tree (3) -- The game of trees -- The cosmic reset -- The holographic truth -- Little numbers. Zero -- A beautiful number -- A history of nothing -- Zero is symmetry -- Finding zero -- 0.0000000000000001 -- The unexpected Higgs boson -- Particle particulars -- The inevitable Higgs boson -- Technically, it's not natural -- The scarlet pimpernel -- 10⁻120 -- An embarrassing number -- Albert Einstein's most difficult relationship -- The golden ticket -- The ghost of Sir Isaac Newton -- Infinity. Infinity -- The infinite gods -- The aleph and the omega -- Close encounters of the infinite kind -- The theory of everything. |
| Summary |
"The leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla uses nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics to build a picture of our current best understanding of how the universe works"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Mathematical physics.
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Number theory.
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| ISBN |
9780374600563 (hardcover) |
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0374600562 (hardcover) |
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9781250872821 (paperback) |
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1250872820 (paperback) |
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