Albert Einstein wrote: “How is it that mathematics, a product of human thought, independent of experience, correlates so perfectly with the objects of physic...

Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abs...

Drawing on the lives of five renowned scientists, Mario Livio shows how even these geniuses made major mistakes and how their errors were an essential par...

However they called this mysterious number, which mathematicians denote by the letter φ: the golden ratio, the number of God, and the divine proportion. It p...

This book is a brilliant confirmation of the eternal truth “only those who do nothing make no mistakes”! To err is human, and great minds make truly great mi...

In this book, the famous astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio turns to the figure of Galileo Galilei, arguing that today his life path, scientific research ...