Is God a mathematician? /

Livio, Mario, 1945-

Is God a mathematician? / Mario Livio. - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009. - x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.

A mystery -- Mystics : the numerologist and the philsopher -- Magicians : the master and the heretic -- Magicians : the skeptic and the giant -- Statisticians and probabilists : the science of uncertainty -- Geometers : future shock -- Logicians : thinking about reasoning -- Unreasonable effectiveness? -- On the human mind, mathematics, and the universe.

This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?

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Mathematics--Philosophy.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematicians--Psychology.
Discoveries in science.
Discoveries in science.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematicians--Psychology.
Mathematics--Philosophy.
Matematik.
Matematikens filosofi.

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