Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order
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品牌: David Orrell
基本信息出版社:Yale University Press (2013年1月1日)精装:304页语种：英语ISBN:0300186614条形码:9780300186611ASIN:0300186614商品描述媒体推荐"If science is the search for truth, we'd better understand what is this truth that we seek. As David Orrell pointedly argues in this well-written and accessible book, modern science runs the danger of being blinded by an overarching aesthetic prejudice--traceable back to Ancient Greece--that truth is necessarily wedded to beauty. Quite the opposite, the more we learn about the natural world, the more we are forced to accept a different kind of aesthetic based on the imperfect and the asymmetric, and no less beautiful for it."--Marcelo Gleiser, author of "A Tear at the Edge of Creation", Appleton Prof. of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College--Marcelo Gleiser作者简介David Orrell is an applied mathematician and popular author. In early 2012, he completed an honorary visiting research fellowship at the Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.