Mario Livio: 12 books

Book cover of La proporción áurea

La proporción áurea

La historia de Phi, el número más sorprendente del mundo

by Mario Livio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2016

"En La proporción áurea Mario Livio nos ofrece un maravilloso trampolín al asombroso mundo de las matemáticas y a su relación con el mundo físico desde la antigüedad hasta el día de hoy." -Roger Penrose, Profesor Rouse Ball de Matemáticas, Universidad de Oxford, autor de The Emperor's...
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Why?

What Makes Us Curious

by Mario Livio
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—in this “lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account” (Kirkus Reviews) as he explores our innate desire to know why. Experiments demonstrate that people are more...
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The Golden Ratio

The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number

by Mario Livio
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship,...
Book cover of Is God a Mathematician?
by Mario Livio
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011

Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind—it can so perfectly explain the physical world. Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about...
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Brilliant Blunders

From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

by Mario Livio
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013

Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein...
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The Accelerating Universe

Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos

by Mario Livio
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008

Advance Praise for The Accelerating Universe "The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the human mind in its quest for beauty in all things." —Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams "This...
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Por qué

Qué nos hace ser curiosos

by Mario Livio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2018

Un recorrido accesible para entender nuestro deseo innato de preguntarnos «¿por qué?» y de qué forma la curiosidad ha sido el motor del progreso y la naturaleza humana. Una de las primeras preguntas que todo niño aprende a formular, muchas veces para desesperación de sus padres, es «¿por...
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Briljante blunders

van Darwin tot Einstein - missers van grote geleerden die ons begrip van de wereld hebben verbeterd

by Mario Livio
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 9, 2014

Iedereen maakt fouten, ook de meest geniale geesten. Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin, Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle en Albert Einstein waren elk baanbrekend op hun wetenschapsgebied, maar ze blunderden ook. Deze geleerden verruimden onze kennis over het ontstaan van de aarde, de evolutie van het leven en...
Book cover of Ist Gott ein Mathematiker?

Ist Gott ein Mathematiker?

Warum das Buch der Natur in der Sprache der Mathematik geschrieben ist

by Mario Livio
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Von der Antike bis in unsere Tage haben sich Wissenschaftler und Philosophen darüber gewundert, dass eine so abstrakte Disziplin wie die Mathematik die Natur derart perfekt erklären kann. Sogar mehr als das: Mathematiker haben oft Voraussagen gemacht, etwa über die Existenz bestimmter Teilchen,...
Book cover of 好奇心:從達文西、費曼等天才身上尋找好奇心的運作機制,其實你我都擁有無限潛能
by 馬里歐.李維歐(Mario Livio)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 4, 2018

結合心理學與神經科學最新研究, 揭開人類探索這個世界最強大的驅動力! 因為好奇心,人類踏上月球、發明網路、在科學與藝術領域不斷推出新的創見, 也因為好奇心,你會不斷滑手機、想多瞄一眼交通事故現場、豎起耳朵聽八卦。 但是,好奇心到底是什麼?人類真的是唯一會問「為什麼」的物種嗎? 人類為了探索和理解周遭世界所做的各種努力,早已遠遠超過維繫自身生存所需。我們是好奇心幾乎無窮盡的物種,有些人的好奇甚至到達痴迷的地步。好奇心是組成人類的一大要素,是我們與其他物種最大的差別之一,也是將人類帶到今日這一步的推動力。愛因斯坦更曾說過:「我沒有什麼特殊天賦,只是擁有熱切的好奇心。」那麼,好奇心究竟是什麼?人類為何如此好奇? 馬里歐.李維歐很早就想知道「是什麼引發了好奇?」、「好奇心的運作機制是什麼?」,於是他進行了大量的研究、探訪眾多心理學家與神經科學家,更與不同學門領域的科學家請益討論,甚至為本書訪問了許多好奇心特別旺盛的傑出人士——包括取得六個跨領域學位的太空人、從音樂轉向物理學研究的歐洲核子研究組織主任、擁有天體物理學博士學位的「皇后合唱團」首席吉他手等等。 本書先從心理學領域著手,一步步探索好奇心的類型與本質,再從神經科學領域的角度挖掘好奇心埋在我們大腦的哪些區塊、影響好奇心的物質與機制為何。從中世紀到現代、自達文西到費曼、再由孩子到成人,李維歐介紹了不同時代與年齡層的好奇心,再引領我們深入數個極具指標的研究實驗,一窺科學界研究好奇心的初衷與最新進展。 書系共同策畫——清華大學生命科學系助理教授...
Book cover of The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved

The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved

How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

by Mario Livio
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005

What do Bach's compositions, Rubik's Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry-known as group theory-did not...
Book cover of 從達爾文到愛因斯坦:科學理論的美麗錯誤與演進
by 馬里歐.李維歐(Mario Livio)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 4, 2014

從達爾文到愛因斯坦,即便是最穎異的心智也會犯下嚴重的錯誤。 然而,正因為這些錯,才讓後繼者知道什麼是「對」 「最令人驚異的頭腦也並非不會犯錯,他們只是幫人類更高層次的理解先行鋪路罷了。」 --馬里歐.李維歐 人類歷史就是充滿一連串的錯誤與試誤的過程,不論在哪種領域,從聖經、希臘神話、哲學……一直到軍事領域的典籍都是如此。李維歐在本書中討論了五個偉大科學家的嚴重錯誤,包括達爾文、化學家萊納斯‧鮑林(Linus...
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