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Truth or beauty: science and the quest for order
In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have inspired—and have sometimes misled—scientists attempting to understand nature. Orrell shows how the anci...
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Yale University Press
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2290061 |