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You will never be able to prove every mathematical truth. For me, this incompleteness theorem, discovered by Kurt Gödel, is one of the most incredible results in mathematics. It may not surprise ...

At the heart of every resonator — be it a cello, a gravitational wave detector, or the antenna in your cell phone — there is a beautiful bit of mathematics that has been heretofore unacknowledged.

Philip Goff received funding from the Templeton Foundation while writing his latest book. Miriam Frankel, the editor, has in the past written a scientific literature review about fine tuning for ...

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