**A groundbreaking exploration of how the interplay of physics and mathematics has enriched our understanding of the universe - essential reading for anyone who wants to grasp how physicists are attempting, in Stephen Hawking's words, to 'know the mind of God'.**One of the great mysteries of science is that underlying all the complexities of the universe is a harmonious order, whose existence**Einstein**described as 'a miracle'. No less miraculous, the fundamental laws of the universe can be written in the language of advanced mathematics.Searching for these laws, physicists have found themselves developing ambitious mathematical ideas without experiment as their guide. In**__The Universe Speaks in Numbers__,****Graham Farmelo**demonstrates how today's greatest scientific minds are working in a tradition that dates back to**Newton**. He takes us on an adventure from the Enlightenment, through the breakthroughs of**Einstein**and**Dirac**, to the contemporary physicists and mathematicians who are shedding fascinating light on each other's disciplines. As Farmelo shows, this blossoming relationship between mathematics and physics is responsible for huge, redefining advances in our understanding of reality, space and time.**Always lively, vivid and authoritative, Farmelo guides the reader through the most thrilling and controversial developments in contemporary thought.****LISTEN TO THE ACCOMPANYING PODCAST featuring interviews with leading scientists at[www.grahamfarmelo.com](http://www.grahamfarmelo.com)**'A**superbly written, riveting**book. In**elegant**prose, and using virtually no equations, Farmelo describes the ongoing quest of great thinkers to understand the bedrock nature of reality'**Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal**, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge'**I am overcome with admiration****for this book's range and profundity**... An**amazing**achievement'**Michael Frayn, award-winning writer of__Copenhagen__**'**Masterful**... a**riveting**account of one of the greatest stories of our time'**Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton**

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Farmelo, Graham

Faber & Faber Classical Music & Dance

Faber & Faber Non-Fiction

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, 2019

Main, 2019

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A groundbreaking exploration of how the interplay of physics and mathematics has enriched our understanding of the universe - essential reading for anyone who wants to grasp how physicists are attempting, in Stephen Hawking's words, to 'know the mind of God'.
One of the great mysteries of science is that underlying all the complexities of the universe is a harmonious order, whose existence Einstein described as 'a miracle'. No less miraculous, the fundamental laws of the universe can be written in the language of advanced mathematics.
Searching for these laws, physicists have found themselves developing ambitious mathematical ideas without experiment as their guide. In The Universe Speaks in Numbers , Graham Farmelo demonstrates how today's greatest scientific minds are working in a tradition that dates back to Newton . He takes us on an adventure from the Enlightenment, through the breakthroughs of Einstein and Dirac , to the contemporary physicists and mathematicians who are shedding fascinating light on each other's disciplines. As Farmelo shows, this blossoming relationship between mathematics and physics is responsible for huge, redefining advances in our understanding of reality, space and time.
Always lively, vivid and authoritative, Farmelo guides the reader through the most thrilling and controversial developments in contemporary thought.
LISTEN TO THE ACCOMPANYING PODCAST featuring interviews with leading scientists at(http://www.grahamfarmelo.com) www.grahamfarmelo.com
'A superbly written, riveting book. In elegant prose, and using virtually no equations, Farmelo describes the ongoing quest of great thinkers to understand the bedrock nature of reality' Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal , Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge
' I am overcome with admiration for this book's range and profundity ... An amazing achievement' Michael Frayn, award-winning writer of Copenhagen
' Masterful ... a riveting account of one of the greatest stories of our time' Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton

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 world's most powerful atom-smashers have offered few new clues. So some of the world's leading physicists have looked to a different source of insight: modern mathematics. These physicists are sometimes accused of doing 'fairy-tale physics', unrelated to the real world. But in The Universe Speaks in Numbers, award-winning science writer and biographer Farmelo argues that the physics they are doing is based squarely on the well-established principles of quantum theory and relativity, and part of a tradition dating back to Isaac Newton. With unprecedented access to some of the world's greatest scientific minds, Farmelo offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of the blossoming relationship between mathematics and physics and the research that could revolutionize our understanding of reality. A masterful account of the some of the most groundbreaking ideas in physics in the past four decades. The Universe Speaks in Numbers is essential reading for anyone interested in the quest to discover the fundamental laws of nature

Farmelo takes us on an adventure from the Enlightenment, through the breakthroughs of Einstein and Dirac, to the contemporary physicists and mathematicians who are shedding fascinating light on each other's disciplines. As the author shows, this blossoming relationship between mathematics and physics is responsible for huge, redefining advances in our understanding of reality, space and time

2019-05-03