Finding Nature's Deep Design

Summary:
Artists and scientists throughout human history have pondered this 'beautiful question.' With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras to Newton and Einstein. Charting his course using beauty as the compass, Wilczek reveals that the deep logic of the universe is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring.

From the author:
Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for work he did as a graduate student. His 1989 book, Longing for the Harmonies, was a New York Times notable book of the year. Wilczek is a regular contributor to Nature and Physics Today, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Science Writing and the Norton Anthology of Light Verse. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.