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Ten Equations to Explain the Mysteries of Modern Astrophysics: From Information and Chaos Theory to Ghost Particles and Gravitational Waves
This book introduces ten equations that transcend the boundaries of time and space. It takes readers through a journey of self-discovery where they will learn the history, science, and significance of these equations in the context of their lives. Moreover, the mathematical beauty of these equations is presented in a profoundly modest fashion to highlight the idea that equations are eternal but humans are transient.
Each chapter offers readers a sublime experience and provides insights into the laws of nature that address the ever-expanding intricacy of our universe. The history of humankind, according to Franz Kafka, is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. Therefore, what remains eternal when we finish our journey on this tiny rocky planet is our deep desire to connect with everything else in this universe. These equations capture the essence of that aspiration and remain everlasting while we continue our trivial human pursuits.
Additionally, these ten equations change the way we live and view the world and will outlast even the most enduring signs of our civilization. They have the potential to take us from planet to planet and perhaps to make us a cosmic species. They can destroy the last strand of DNA to terminate life as we know it and generate life again from the fundamental laws of nature. While these equations are intangible, they can create a tangible world yet remain truly eternal.
Each chapter offers readers a sublime experience and provides insights into the laws of nature that address the ever-expanding intricacy of our universe. The history of humankind, according to Franz Kafka, is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. Therefore, what remains eternal when we finish our journey on this tiny rocky planet is our deep desire to connect with everything else in this universe. These equations capture the essence of that aspiration and remain everlasting while we continue our trivial human pursuits.
Additionally, these ten equations change the way we live and view the world and will outlast even the most enduring signs of our civilization. They have the potential to take us from planet to planet and perhaps to make us a cosmic species. They can destroy the last strand of DNA to terminate life as we know it and generate life again from the fundamental laws of nature. While these equations are intangible, they can create a tangible world yet remain truly eternal.
206 pages, Paperback
Published June 30, 2019
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July 18, 2023
Lousy. Both the math and the literary parts are wanting. Like many current books, this seems to have lacked a proofreader. Lots of repetition, mistakes (Einstein is called Eisenstein once) and the author tends to go into random excurses, discussing Hindu theology and Ledeerman's dementia for no apparent reason.
July 13, 2019
"...There is a poetic feel to the ruminations here exemplified by Chapter 6 on entropy. Its name eschews title case as the rest: “The equation that stole eternity”. This gibes with an awe of the discovered and imagined nature of reality emerging from the semi-philosophical character of discussion here. This tone is set from the onset with Chapter 1 on The Shannon Entropy Equation leading not to data compression or other applications of information theory, but to a musing on the Holographic Universe; reality as a simulation or hologram.
This is not to suggest the author ever becomes untethered, drifting off into fringe theory. Not only well-grounded, there are some salvoes fired into the fringe. Aim is taken at The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
by Fritjof Capra and against the “outcry of some Hindu nationalists that science is just figuring out what has already been described in the scriptures.” (I am certain this is the only work on mathematics I have read that has a few things to say on the subject of “Hindu nationalists” and their beliefs.)..."
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This is not to suggest the author ever becomes untethered, drifting off into fringe theory. Not only well-grounded, there are some salvoes fired into the fringe. Aim is taken at The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
by Fritjof Capra and against the “outcry of some Hindu nationalists that science is just figuring out what has already been described in the scriptures.” (I am certain this is the only work on mathematics I have read that has a few things to say on the subject of “Hindu nationalists” and their beliefs.)..."
[Look for my entire review at MAA Reviews]
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