Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, 9780241585580
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Mind-blowing numbers unlock the universe’s deepest secrets and strange realities.

Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them

a journey to the edge of physics

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    4 July 2022

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Summary

Unveiling the Universe: A Cosmic Journey Through Extraordinary Numbers

A dazzling exploration of the strange and extreme numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality.

For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths - via ever more mind-boggling numbers - led to strange new understandings of reality. But what are these mysterious numbers that explain the universe?

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241585580
ISBN-10:0241585589
Author:Antonio Padilla
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Allen Lane
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:4 July 2022
Weight:432g
Dimensions:232mm x 155mm x 26mm
About The Author

Antonio Padilla

Tony Padilla is a leading theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. In 2016, he and his team shared the Buchalter Cosmology Prize for their work on the cosmological constant. He is also a star of the Numberphile YouTube network, where his most popular videos include a discussion of Ramanujan’s sum of all positive integers, which has been viewed more than eight million times.

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