New Releases by Leonard Mlodinow

Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Hawking have had a major impact on the loud and popular debate between ''aggressive atheists'' and religion. The huge sales of their bestselling books show just how much interest people have in their ideas. Now Deepak Chopra is entering this debate, sparring with leading physicist, Professor Leonard Mlodinow (the co-author, with Stephen Hawking, of The Grand Design). In Is God an Illusion?, Chopra argues that there is design in our universe and a deep intelligence behind life. Without defending organised religion, he debunks randomness as an explanation for how Nature evolves and shows how consciousness comes first and matter second. On the other side, Mlodinow argues the viewpoint of science, specifically what modern quantum physics can tell us about our world. In his view, physics, genetics and cosmology will shed far more light on the big questions than rethinking ancient spiritual concepts can ever do. A major work of our time, Is God an Illusion? will not only offer more food for thought for those fascinated by the two sides of this modern conundrum - it will also place Deepak Chopra firmly in the ring of some of the most remarkable, and bestselling, thinkers of our era.

Wetenschap of religie: wie heeft er gelijk? Twee toonaangevende auteurs voeren het debat over de fundamentele vragen van het bestaan: hoe is het heelal ontstaan, waar komt het leven vandaan, is de natuur ontworpen of per toeval ontstaan? Chopra beweert dat er intelligentie schuilgaat achter het heelal en bij het ontstaan van het leven. Mlodinow (natuurkundige) zegt dat de wetenschap een rationele verklaring heeft voor het ontstaan van het heelal.

Un libro illuminante sul "conflitto" tra scienza e spiritualità: le risposte alle grandi domande della vita da due punti di vista diversi ma non sempre inconciliabili.

Illustrious mathematician Hawking and well-known physicist Mloginov join force to produce this elegant treatment of the cause for our existence in the universe, and to attempt the answer to the question why do we exist? Vietnamese translation by Pham Van Thieu and To Ba Ha. In Vietnamese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Some of the brightest minds in science have passed through the halls of the California Institute of Technology. In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow joined their ranks to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Afraid he was not smart enough to be there, despite his groundbreaking Ph.D. thesis, he took his insecurities to Richard Feynman, Caltech’s intimidating resident genius and iconoclast. So began a pivotal year in a young man’s life. Though a series of fascinating exchanges, Mlodinow and Feynman delve into the nature of science, creativity, love mathematics, happiness, God, art, pleasures and ambition, producing a moving portrait of a friendship and an affecting account of Feynman’s final creative years.

Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on “the future of God,” one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. This remarkable book is the product of that serendipitous encounter and the contentious—but respectful—clash of worldviews that grew along with their friendship. In War of the Worldviews these two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God, probing the fundamental questions that define the human experience. How did the universe emerge? What is the nature of time? What is life? Did Darwin go wrong? What makes us human? What is the connection between mind and brain? Is God an illusion? This extraordinary book will fascinate millions of readers of science and spirituality alike, as well as anyone who has ever asked themselves, What does it mean that I am alive?

Quando e come ha avuto inizio l''universo? Perché c''è qualcosa invece di nulla? Perché le leggi di natura sono calibrate con tanta precisione da permettere l''esistenza di esseri come noi? Perché siamo qui? E soprattutto, il "Grande disegno" del nostro universo è opera di un benevolente creatore o la scienza può offrire un''altra spiegazione?

মহিমান্বিত নকশা অনুবাদ: আশরাফ মাহমুদ Bengali (Bangla) translation of The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Design_(book)

Pourquoi et comment l’Univers a-t-il commencé ? Pourquoi y a-t-il quelque chose plutôt que rien ? Quelle est la nature de la réalité ? Comment expliquer que les lois naturelles soient aussi finement ajustées ? Et nous, pourquoi donc existons-nous ?Longtemps réservées aux philosophes et aux théologiens, ces interrogations relèvent désormais aussi de la science. C’est ce que montrent ici avec brio et simplicité Stephen Hawking et Leonard Mlodinow, s’appuyant sur les découvertes et les théories les plus récentes, qui ébranlent nos croyances les plus anciennes. Pour eux, inutile d’imaginer un plan, un dessein, un créateur derrière la nature. La science explique bel et bien à elle seule les mystères de l’Univers. Des réponses nouvelles aux questions les plus élémentaires : lumineux et provocateur ! Le premier ouvrage important de Stephen Hawking depuis dix ans. Célébrissime auteur d’Une brève histoire du temps, de Trous noirs et Bébés univers et de L’Univers dans une coquille de noix, Stephen Hawking est professeur à l’Université de Cambridge. Leonard Mlodinow est physicien au California Institute of Technology.

Pourquoi et comment l''Univers a-t-il commencé ? Pourquoi y a-t-il quelque chose plutôt que rien ? Quelle est la nature de la réalité ? Comment expliquer que les lois naturelles soient aussi finement ajustées ? Et nous, pourquoi donc existons-nous ? Longtemps réservées aux philosophes et aux théologiens, ces interrogations relèvent désormais aussi de la science. C''est ce que montrent ici avec brio et simplicité Stephen Hawking et Leonard Mlodinow, s''appuyant sur les découvertes et les théories les plus récentes qui ébranlent nos croyances les plus anciennes. Pour eux, inutile d''imaginer un plan, un dessein, un créateur derrière la nature. La science explique bel et bien à elle seule les mystères de l''Univers. Des réponses nouvelles aux questions les plus élémentaires : lumineux et provocateur ! Le premier ouvrage important de Stephen Hawking, depuis dix ans. Célébrissime auteur d''Une brève histoire du temps, de Trous noirs et bébés univers et de L''Univers dans une coquille de noix, Stephen Hawking est professeur à l''Université de Cambridge. Leonard Mlodinow est physicien au California Institute of Technology.

Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard''s Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions -- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other? -- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill in many (but not all) the blank spots in quantum physics. This collection is known as the "Grand Unified Field Theories."

An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize.

Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard''s Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions -- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other? -- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill in many (but not all) the blank spots in quantum physics. This collection is known as the "Grand Unified Field Theories."

Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard''s Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions -- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other? -- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill in many (but not all) the blank spots in quantum physics. This collection is known as the "Grand Unified Field Theories."

La esperada gran obra tras casi una década de uno de los grandes pensadores de nuestro tiempo.Aun antes de aparecer, este libro ha venido precedido, en todos los medios de comunicación, de una extraordinaria polémica sobre sus conclusiones: que tanto nuestro universo como los otros muchos universos posibles surgieron de la nada, porque su creación no requiere de la intervención de ningún Dios o ser sobrenatural, sino que todos los universos proceden naturalmente de las leyes físicas. En efecto, en los últimos años, el desarrollo de la teoría “M” (en realidad toda una familia de teorías enlazadas sobre física cuántica) y las recientes observaciones realizadas por los satélites de la NASA, nos permiten ya enfrentarnos a la pregunta fundamental: la Cuestión Última de la Vida, el Universo y el Todo. Si esta teoría última es verificada por la observación científica, habremos culminado una búsqueda que se remonta a hace más de tres mil años: habremos hallado el Gran Diseño.

Through Euclid''s Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology. Based on Mlodinow''s extensive historical research; his studies alongside colleagues such as Richard Feynman and Kip Thorne; and interviews with leading physicists and mathematicians such as Murray Gell-Mann, Edward Witten, and Brian Greene, Euclid''s Window is an extraordinary blend of rigorous, authoritative investigation and accessible, good-humored storytelling that makes a stunningly original argument asserting the primacy of geometry. For those who have looked through Euclid''s Window, no space, no thing, and no time will ever be quite the same.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology.”—The Wall Street Journal “Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity.”—Los Angeles Times When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most illuminating scientific thinking about these and other abiding mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by brilliance and simplicity. According to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history. The authors explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the early universe and show how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”—the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature. They conclude with a riveting assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing our universe that is currently the only viable candidate for a “theory of everything”: the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, which, if confirmed, would represent the ultimate triumph of human reason. A succinct, startling, and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will inform—and provoke—like no other.

Simplified Chinese edition of The Grand Design. In an interview, Hawking gives a nutshell of the book in an interview, "Leonard Mlodinow and I set out to write a sequel to A Brief History of Time to attempt to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The result is The Grand Design, the product of our four-year effort." It is a compelling read and should be of interest to everyone who questions the meaning of life. In Simplified Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Beschouwingen over het toeval, kansberekening en de merkwaardige missers die mensen maken als toeval een rol speelt.

An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize.