ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the mathematical beauty of fundamental physics dynamics and general. It explains the ways in which subjective meaning/sense and objective perspective are woven together in the getting and application of all kinds of human knowledge and understanding, 'scientific' or otherwise: 'the line between artistic and scientific judgement does not coincide with the line between subjective and objective'. The book also explores the deep harmony and coherence that physics reveals in the world and the ways in which it echoes more everyday experiences of beauty. It focuses on the thinking of Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, on the relationship of beauty and truth in science and life. The book also explains how the role of beauty in science draws people out of themselves and frees them from the imprisonment their skulls impose on self-consciousness.
