The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

An award-winning science writer shows how math helps us solve the universe’s mysteries.

“If you like reading about math without having to do math, this is a stellar book.” —Forbes

One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them. For centuries, we have searched for these laws by studying the results of...