Overview
- Requires only a basic knowledge of high school-level math
- Provides colorful visuals of famous mathematical concepts
- Includes entertaining stories and historical tidbits about famous scientists and discoveries over time
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Popular Science (POPS)
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About this book
-Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Prize, in Physics 1999)
This is a book about the mathematical nature of our Universe.
Armed with no more than basic high school mathematics, Dr. Joel L. Schiff takes you on a foray through some of the most intriguing aspects of the world around us. Along the way, you will visit the bizarre world of subatomic particles, honey bees and ants, galaxies, black holes, infinity, and more. Included are such goodies as measuring the speed of light with your microwave oven, determining the size of the Earth with a stick in the ground and the age of the Solar System from meteorites, understanding how the Theory of Relativity makes your everyday GPS system possible, and so much more.
These topics are easily accessible to anyone who has ever brushed up against the Pythagorean Theorem and the symbol π, with the lightest dusting of algebra. Through this book, science-curious readers will come to appreciate the patterns, seeming contradictions, and extraordinary mathematical beauty of our Universe.
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Book Title: The Mathematical Universe
Book Subtitle: From Pythagoras to Planck
Authors: Joel L. Schiff
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50649-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50651-3Published: 07 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50649-0Published: 18 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Physics, Cosmology, Philosophy of Mathematics