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In the bestselling literary tradition of Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell and James Watson's The Double Helix , Poetry of the Universe is a delightful and compelling narrative charting the evolution of mathematical ideas that have helped to illuminate the nature of the observable universe. In a richly anecdotal fashion, the book explores the leaps of imagination and vision in mathematics that have helped pioneer our understanding of the world around us.
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Poetry of the Universe, Robert Osserman
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- Poetry of the Universe
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert Osserman
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0385474296
- ISBN13
- 9780385474290
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Science & Math, Natural sciences, Science, Mathematics, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Physics
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- In the bestselling literary tradition of Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell and James Watson's The Double Helix , Poetry of the Universe is a delightful and compelling narrative charting the evolution of mathematical ideas that have helped to illuminate the nature of the observable universe. In a richly anecdotal fashion, the book explores the leaps of imagination and vision in mathematics that have helped pioneer our understanding of the world around us.