Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an a
stonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discov
er the nature of reality. Part-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventur
e, 'Our Mathematical Universe' travels from the big bang to the distant future v
ia parallel worlds, across every possible scale - from the sub-atomic to the int
ergalactic - showing how mathematics provides the answers to our questions about
the world.