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Mario Livio
Mario Livio is a senior astrophysicist and the Head of the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of The Golden Ratio, a highly acclaimed book about mathematics and art for which he received the International Pythagoras... show more

Mario Livio is a senior astrophysicist and the Head of the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of The Golden Ratio, a highly acclaimed book about mathematics and art for which he received the International Pythagoras Prize and the Peano Prize, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, and The Accelerating Universe. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Mario Livio's Books
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe - Mario Livio The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number - Mario Livio The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry - Mario Livio Your Ticket to the Universe: A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos - Kimberly K. Arcand, Megan Watzke, Mario Livio Is God a Mathematician? - Mario Livio The Extragalactic Distance Scale - Mario Livio, Megan O. Donahue L'equazione impossibile (BUR SAGGI) (Italian Edition) - Mario Livio The Hubble Deep Field - Mario Livio, Michael S. Fall, S. Michael Fall Extragalactic Background Radiation - Daniela Calzetti, Mario Livio Astrophysics of Life: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland, May 6-9, 2002 - Mario Livio, Neill Reid, William Sparks Planets to Cosmology: Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope - Mario Livio Black Holes - Mario Livio, Anton M Koeke... Black Holes - Mario Livio, Anton M Koekemoer Unsolved Problems in Stellar Evolution - Mario Livio Massive Stars: From Pop III and GRBs to the Milky Way - Mario Livio, Eva Villaver Planets to Cosmology: Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institu - Casertano, Mario Livio, Stefano Casertano The Dark Universe: Matter, Energy and Gravity - Mario Livio, Michael Fall Planets to Cosmology: Essential Science ... Planets to Cosmology: Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope. Space Telescope Science Institute Series: Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope - Stefano Casertano, Mario Livio A Decade of Extrasolar Planets Around Normal Stars - Mario Livio Twelfth Texas Symposium on Relativistic ... Twelfth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics - Mario Livio A Decade of Hubble Space Telescope Science - Mario Livio, Keith Noll
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La sezione aurea: Storia di un numero e di un mistero che dura da tremila anni - Mario Livio, Stefano Galli
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe - Mario Livio
Dio è un matematico: La scoperta delle formule nascoste dell'universo - Mario Livio
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number - Mario Livio
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe - Mario Livio
The Golden Ratio - Mario Livio
Your Ticket to the Universe: A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos - Kimberly K. Arcand, Megan Watzke, Mario Livio
Is God a Mathematician? - Mario Livio
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry - Mario Livio
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 9 years ago
text Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe by Mario Livio
bookshelves: autumn-2015, nonfiction, nonfic-nov-2015, sciences, history-of-science, published-2013, tbr-busting-2015, under-1000-ratings, too-loud-man Read from September 09, 2013 to November 23, 2015 Description: Drawing on the lives of five renowned scientists, Mario Livio shows how even the...
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Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story
Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story rated it 11 years ago
text Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
This book is really "Brilliant Blunderers", or, in a less catchy but more accurate phrase, "Smart People sometimes make stupid mistakes". Which is not exactly news. But it does make the greats of science seem more human.I felt during the whole book that the author was really reaching for his thesi...
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shell pebble
shell pebble rated it 11 years ago
text Avoids the pitfalls
A fascinating, carefully researched book in which Livio debunks myths, superstitions, lazy theories and stereotypes about the so-called ratio of beauty, and reveals far more interesting and unexpected appearances of phi.
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 12 years ago
text Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
The author writes in a straightforward manner and explains the science in a highly entertaining manner. If I ever sit next to somebody in a waffle house who starts talking about his life stories, I can easily pivot into one of the five stories splendidly presented in this book. The writer was that g...
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