Frank Wilczek (MIT):

Quantum Beauty: Real and Ideal

Abstract:

Does the world embody beautiful ideas? Pythagoras and Plato intuited that it should; Newton and Maxwell demonstrated how it could. But modern physics, and especially the quantum physics at its foundation, answers with a much more resounding and definitive "Yes!" I'll bring in history and art, as well as science, to make the case.

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