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Why beauty is truth : a history of symmetry
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- Creator
- Ian Stewart
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Basic Books, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780465082360, 046508236X
- OCLC
- ocm76481488
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.
- The scribes of Babylon -- The household name -- The Persian poet -- The gambling scholar -- The cunning fox -- The frustrated doctor and the sickly genius --The luckless revolutionary -- The mediocre engineer and the transcendent professor -- The drunken vandal -- The would-be soldier and the weakly bookworm -- The clerk from the patent office -- A quantum quintet -- The five-dimensional man -- The political journalist -- A muddle of mathematicians -- Seekers after truth and beauty