137
Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession
Is there a number at the root of the universe? A primal number that everything in the world hinges on? This question exercised many great minds of the twentieth century, among them the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Their obsession with the power of certain numbers-including 137, which describes the atom's fine-structure constant and has great Kabbalistic significance-led them to develop an unlikely friendship and to embark on a joint mystical quest reaching deep into medieval alchemy, dream interpretation, and the Chinese Book of Changes. 137 explores the profound intersection of modern scienc…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-33864-5
- EAN: 9780393338645
- Produktnummer: 19381584
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.9 cm 301 g
- Abbildungen: 66 b/w illustrations
- Gewicht: 301
Über den Autor
Arthur I. Miller is a professor emeritus at University College London. He has published many critically acclaimed books, including Einstein, Picasso; Empire of the Stars; and 137. He lives in London.
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