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Pi in the sky : counting, thinking and being / John D. Barrow

This philosophical study explores the relationship between mathematics and the physical universe. It examines whether mathematical principles are human inventions or inherent discoveries that explain the natural world, from subatomic particles to the reaches of space.

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