The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

by Graham Farmelo

Book Overview

How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteries

One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them. For centuries, we have searched for these laws by studying the results of experiments.

Since the 1970s, however, experiments at the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465056652
• ISBN13: 9780465056651
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"