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मारियो लिवियो का जन्म 19 जून, 1945 को हुआ था, जो एक इजरायली-अमेरिकी खगोलशास्त्री और विज्ञान और गणित को लोकप्रिय बनाने वाले कार्यों के लेखक थे। 24 वर्षों (1991-2015) के लिए वह स्पेस टेलीस्कोप साइंस इंस्टीट्यूट में एक खगोल भौतिकीविद् थे, जो हबल स्पेस टेलीस्कोप का संचालन करता है। उन्होंने ब्रह्मांड विज्ञान, सुपरनोवा विस्फोट, ब्लैक होल, एक्स्ट्रासोलर ग्रहों और ब्रह्मांड में जीवन के उद्भव सहित विषयों पर 400 से अधिक वैज्ञानिक लेख प्रकाशित किए हैं।[1] अपरिमेय संख्या फी पर उनकी पुस्तक, द गोल्डन रेशियो: द स्टोरी ऑफ फी, द वर्ल्ड्स मोस्ट एस्टोनिशिंग नंबर (2002) ने गणित पर लोकप्रिय पुस्तकों के लिए पीनो पुरस्कार और अंतर्राष्ट्रीय पाइथागोरस पुरस्कार जीता।

Is God a Mathematician पीडीएफ मारियो लिवियो

Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world. More than that -- mathematics has often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true. Is mathematics ultimately invented or discovered? If, as Einstein insisted, mathematics is "a product of human thought that is independent of experience," how can it so accurately describe and even predict the world around us? Mathematicians themselves often insist that their work has no practical effect. The British mathematician G. H. Hardy went so far as to describe his own work this way: "No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world." He was wrong. The Hardy-Weinberg law allows population geneticists to predict how genes are transmitted from one generation to the next, and Hardy's work on the theory of numbers found unexpected implications in the development of codes. Physicist and author Mario Livio brilliantly explores mathematical ideas from Pythagoras to the present day as he shows us how intriguing questions and ingenious answers have led to ever deeper insights into our world. This fascinating book will interest anyone curious about the human mind, the scientific world, and the relationship between them.