This is an auction for A BEAUTIFUL QUESTION: FINDING NATURE'S DEEP DESIGN by Frank Wilczek.

“An expertly curated tour across 2500 years of philosophy and physics. . . One of the great pleasures of Mr Wilczek’s book is his wide-ranging interest in the way the beauty he finds in symmetry appears across human experience. . . . He has accomplished a rare feat: Writing a book of profound humanity based on questions aimed directly at the eternal.”

• The Wall Street Journal

"A BEAUTIFUL QUESTION is both a brilliant exploration of largely uncharted territories and a refreshingly idiosyncratic guide to developments in particle physics."

• Nature

“The beauty of nature’s equations merges with the beauty of literature in Wilczek’s book. It’s a work of art.”

• Science News (US)

“A deep, challenging, and marvelous book.”

• Library Journal (US)

Amazon.com review:

"Physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe. As the quest to find the beauty embodied in the universe has connected all scientific pursuit, from Pythagoras to Einstein, Wilczek shows us just how deeply intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our understanding of the cosmos. A BEAUTIFUL QUESTION is a mind-expanding book combining the age-old human quest for beauty with the age-old human quest for truth.

Very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for work he did as a graduate student. He was among the earliest MacArthur fellows, and has won many awards both for his scientific work and his writing. He is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Large format (trade) Penguin paperback 2016.

274 pages + 32 pages of colour photographs and other illustrations.

New condition.

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