Is God a Mathematician?
by Mario Livio

Hosted by the author, Mario Livio
Astrophysicist, Head of the Office of Public Outreach,
Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute

"For centuries, mathematical theories have proven uncannily accurate at describing – and predicting – the physical world. What is it that gives mathematics such powers? I thoroughly review this question in Is God A Mathematician?"

— Mario Livio,
Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute,
Head, Institute's Office of Public Outreach,
Author and Faculty host

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About this Month's Selection

"The book spans such fields as mathematics, philosophy, cosmology, physics, and the cognitive sciences, and it attempts to offer an accessible and lively account of the ideas of some of the greatest mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists in history, from Archimedes to Galileo and Descartes, and from Newton to Einstein and Gödel, on up to the present day. Along the way I discuss another question with which mathematicians, philosophers, and neuroscientists have struggled for centuries: Is mathematics ultimately invented or discovered? "