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Fundamentals de Frank Wilczek

Fundamentals

Autor Frank Wilczek
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 ian 2022

În lucrarea Fundamentals, Frank Wilczek propune o sinteză riguroasă a realității, explorând intersecția dintre fizica teoretică, cosmologie și istoria ideilor. Apreciem modul în care autorul reușește să deconstruiască pilonii universului nostru — timpul, spațiul, materia și energia — oferind o perspectivă interdisciplinară care ancorează teoriile abstracte în contextul evoluției gândirii umane. Ediția de față, publicată de Penguin Books, se distinge printr-o claritate remarcabilă, fiind structurată pentru a ghida cititorul de la certitudinile mecanicii clasice către orizonturile speculative ale fizicii moderne. Considerăm această carte o alternativă solidă la The World According to Physics de Jim Al-Khalili pentru cursurile de introducere în filozofia științei sau fizică generală, având avantajul unei profunzimi filozofice sporite prin conceptul de complementaritate. Dacă The World According to Physics se concentrează pe mecanismele de funcționare ale universului, Fundamentals invită la o reflecție asupra modului în care mintea umană a ajuns să descifreze aceste legi. În contextul operei sale, Frank Wilczek continuă explorările din The Lightness of Being, unde analiza natura masei și a energiei, însă Fundamentals adoptă un ton mai sintetic și mai accesibil. Față de A Beautiful Question, unde frumusețea era principiul organizator central, volumul de față prioritizează fundamentele empirice și logice ale realității. Găsim în acest text un echilibru între precizia academică a unui profesor de la MIT și entuziasmul unui cercetător care vede în fiecare atom o dovadă a ingeniozității cosmice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141985770
ISBN-10: 0141985771
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 131 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor dornic să înțeleagă structura universului fără a se pierde în formalism matematic excesiv. Fundamentals oferă o clarificare esențială a conceptelor de bază din fizică, transformând idei complexe în cunoștințe accesibile. Este o lectură care antrenează gândirea critică și oferă un cadru coerent pentru a interpreta descoperirile științifice contemporane.

Despre autor

Frank Wilczek este un fizician teoretician de renume mondial, laureat al Premiului Nobel în 2004 pentru contribuțiile sale remarcabile în domeniul fizicii particulelor. În prezent, deține titlul de Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics la MIT. Recunoscut nu doar pentru rigoarea sa științifică, ci și pentru talentul literar, Wilczek a reușit să traducă teorii complexe pentru publicul larg în numeroase lucrări premiate. Cariera sa este definită de o căutare constantă a unității și simetriei în legile naturii, teme care traversează întreaga sa bibliografie.

Notă biografică

Frank Wilczek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including A Beautiful Question and Longing for the Harmonies. Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT; founding director of the T. D. Lee Institute and chief scientist of the Wilczek Quantum Center in Shanghai; and a distinguished professor at Arizona State and Stockholm universities.

Descriere scurtă

InFundamentals,Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way--bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before.

Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind.

Recenzii

It's hard to imagine a better tour of fundamental physics than the one I got from Frank Wilczek here. Loved it
If you were to go back just two hundred years and tell people what we knew, from the origins of the universe to the molecular basis of life, and how weird and unintuitive nature is at the atomic scale, they would think we were crazy. But if you showed them what we have created with that knowledge, they would think we were magicians. In this engaging and highly accessible book, Frank Wilczek shows how the vast edifice that is modern science was constructed with only a few ingredients and assumptions, but depended crucially on a way of thinking--about the nature of evidence and how it applied to the world around us. Anyone interested in the underlying basis of the complexity of today's science will enjoy this book.
Frank Wilczek is not only one of the world's greatest physicists; he's also one of its greatest explainers. Fundamentals is lucid, beautiful, and revelatory.
Whether or not you're accustomed to reading physics for pleasure, the Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek's Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year... Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity, and his pleasure in his subject is palpable... What a reader gets in Fundamentals is the native language of physics - mathematics - precisely translated by someone who has spent a lifetime (about a billion thoughts!) on these forces that shape our physical world
This is an exuberant, gorgeously crafted, and intellectually thrilling book, written by one of our greatest living scientists yet hospitable to all. To be reminded that time and space, mystery and order, are so much stranger and more generous than we can comprehend-this is a gift to public life and moral imagination in a young century where what is visible and tangible feels chaotic and constricting. This book is also unexpectedly spiritually thrilling. Wilczek makes the remarkable move of picking up and evolving the classic scientists' faith that their investigations would reveal the mind of our maker, as well as Einstein's self-described 'cosmic spiritual sensibility.' What began as an exposition, as Wilzcek writes, 'grew into a contemplation.' The result is a profoundly enriched understanding, accessible to the religious and non-religious alike, of what it means to be human-and what we might be pointing at when we use the word God.
[Wilczek] turns out to be a true visionary
For those with more scientific yearnings, and who regret not taking a few courses in college to learn about the physical world, theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek offers a way to catch up . . . With his clear and joyful voice, Wilczek succeeds very well, and for good reason . . . There is no calculus required; this is not Physics 101. Instead, Wilczek talks about modern physics and cosmology from a more broad-brush and philosophical perspective, often linking their findings to the real world - how they affect us. In this age of rising skepticism, he wants his readers - whom he imagines to be lawyers, doctors, artists, parents or simply curious people - to be 'born again, in the way of science'.
A lucid and riveting narrative of the fundamentals-what Wilczek calls 'the central messages of modern physics,' which are not just facts about how the world works but also 'the style of thought that allowed us to discover them.
Mr. Wilczek's prose pulses with enthusiasm for its subject
The universe at its grandest and most minuscule is explored in this beguiling meditation on physics. . . a stimulating and very readable scientific tour of the cosmos.
...breathtaking feat . . . the narrative is a mind-bender of the first order-in the best way possible-but what makes it so engrossing is that the author does far more than just present the facts and speculations, however fascinating; on every page, readers will glean his exhilaration and joy in discovery . . . Another winner from Wilczek, who invites us to be born again into a richer, deeper understanding of the world.
This is a book about deep ideas, not passing fancies. It will teach you profound principles, not dry lists of facts. It's a rare treat indeed to get a glimpse into the mind of one of the world's leading physicists, presented in an engaging style that will be enjoyed by anyone at all.
How is the universe put together? Beneath the bewildering clamor of the world around us, there lies a hidden realm of subtle mathematical beauty, a bedrock of fundamental principles in which all of nature is grounded. Few living scientists have accomplished more than Frank Wilczek in helping unveil that deeper layer of existence. With poetry and fervor, Wilczek takes us on a breathtaking journey to the frontiers of physics, and reminds us of just how privileged we human beings are to glimpse the foundations of reality.
A delightful book . . . Frank Wilczek is that rare creature: a first-class scientist who is also an extremely talented communicator. . . Wilczek constantly finds fresh ways to present such ideas, so that you emerge with new insight into what they mean. . . . Fundamentals is, then, not only an exceptional piece of science communication but also a deeply humanistic book
Fundamentals is an engaging account of the history of humankind's understanding of reality, told by one of the key contributors to recent parts of that story. Wilczek's grasp on the physics he relates is comprehensive and authoritative; he conveys technicalities with a rare combination of accuracy and accessibility . . . Wilczek provides an exceptionally clear guide to the state of physical knowledge in the early 21st century, much in the spirit of the sort of explanation that the ancient Greeks desired