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Mario Livio
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Mario Livio is an Israeli-American astrophysicist and author who writes popular works on science and mathematics.
Biography
Mario Livio (born June 19, 1945) is a Romanian-born Israeli–American astrophysicist and author who has written widely to popularize science and mathematics. From 1991 to 2015 he served as an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, the organization that operates the Hubble Space Telescope.
He has published more than 400 scientific articles on cosmology, supernova explosions, black holes, extrasolar planets, and the emergence of life in the universe. His book The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi (2002) won the Peano Prize and the International Pythagoras Prize for popular books on mathematics.
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Books by Mario Livio
Is God a mathematician?
This exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?