Is God a Mathematician?

by Mario Livio

Book Overview

Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history's greatest mathematicians to ask how--if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind--it can so perfectly explain the physical world.

Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743294068
• ISBN13: 9780743294065
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"