Mario Livio 1945年齣生於羅馬尼亞,1950年定居以色列,耶路撒冷希伯萊大學本科畢業,魏茲曼科學院碩士,特拉維夫大學博士。多年來從事天體物理研究,1981 年~1991年任以色列理工學院物理學教授,而後加入美國馬裏蘭州巴爾的摩市的哈勃太空望遠鏡研究所,現任該所外展服務部門負責人。他所著的The Golden Ratio曾獲國際畢達哥拉斯奬和佩亞諾奬,The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved和The Accelerating Universe等著作也都在《自然》、《經濟學傢》、《科學》等權威期刊上得到極高的評價。
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 is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world. More than that -- mathematics has often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true. Is mathematics ultimately invented or discovered? If, as Einstein insisted, mathematics is "a product of human thought that is independent of experience," how can it so accurately describe and even predict the world around us? Mathematicians themselves often insist that their work has no practical effect. The British mathematician G. H. Hardy went so far as to describe his own work this way: "No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world." He was wrong. The Hardy-Weinberg law allows population geneticists to predict how genes are transmitted from one generation to the next, and Hardy's work on the theory of numbers found unexpected implications in the development of codes. Physicist and author Mario Livio brilliantly explores mathematical ideas from Pythagoras to the present day as he shows us how intriguing questions and ingenious answers have led to ever deeper insights into our world. This fascinating book will interest anyone curious about the human mind, the scientific world, and the relationship between them.
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評分這本書很好的介紹瞭數學史上的一些內容,包括數學的一些曆史以及一些數學背後的哲學思想。 韆萬不要不要被這本書的名字所嚇倒,這本書裏其實沒有什麼晦澀難懂的數學證明,連公式都沒有。但是還是有很值得一讀的內容的,書中的思想在我這樣看過莫裏斯剋萊因的相關作品的人看來,...
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Is God a Mathematician? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載