A Beautiful Question

Artists and scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, 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. Wilczek’s own groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature, and he brings us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand. Gorgeously illustrated and animated with Wilczek’s humor and infectious wonder, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis.