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The Great Unknown by Marcus Du Sautoy
"An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dream and The Accidental Universe"No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." --Bill Bryson
Brain Pickings and Kirkus Best Science Book of the Year
Every week seems to throw up a new discovery, shaking the foundations of what we know. But are there questions we will never be able to answer--mysteries that lie beyond the predictive powers of science? In this captivating exploration of our most tantalizing unknowns, Marcus du Sautoy invites us to consider the problems in cosmology, quantum physics, mathematics, and neuroscience that continue to bedevil scientists and creative thinkers who are at the forefront of their fields.
At once exhilarating, mind-bending, and compulsively readable, The Great Unknown challenges us to consider big questions--about the nature of consciousness, what came before the big bang, and what lies beyond our horizons--while taking us on a virtuoso tour of the great breakthroughs of the past and celebrating the men and women who dared to tackle the seemingly impossible and had the imagination to come up with new ways of seeing the world.
Marcus du Sautoy is a bestselling author of The Music of the Primes, Symmetry, and The Big Unknown, as well as the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford. Among other honors, he has received the London Mathematical Society's Berwick Award and Zeeman Medal, as well as the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture. Du Sautoy has written and presented over a dozen documentaries, including The Code and The Hidden Laws of Modern Living: Algorithms. He is a trumpeter, a member of an experimental theater group, and a former president of the Mathematical Association. Lauren Child's Ruby Redfort mysteries were coded by him.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780735221826 |
| ISBN 10 | 0735221820 |
| Title | The Great Unknown |
| Author | Marcus Du Sautoy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2018-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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