Our Mathematical Universe

My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

by Max Tegmark

hardcover, 432 pages

Published Jan. 7, 2014 by Knopf.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-59980-3
OCLC Number:: 847842647

(15 reviews)

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality is a 2014 nonfiction book by the Swedish-American cosmologist Max Tegmark. Written in popular science format, the book interweaves what a New York Times reviewer called "an informative survey of exciting recent developments in astrophysics and quantum theory" with Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis, which posits that reality is a mathematical structure. This mathematical nature of the universe, Tegmark argues, has important consequences for the way researchers should approach many questions of physics.

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2 stars

The book lacks solid foundation. While there are some reasonable controversial theories, these mostly are buried under a pile of nonsense. For example, anthropic principle is not applied correctly, and it is implied that two for every two infinite sets there is always one-to-one function mapping the first set to another (cardinality, anyone?)

Informal chatty writing style does not help, too.