137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession

Is there a number at the root of the universe? A primal number that everything in the world hinges on? This question exercised many great minds of the twentieth century, among them the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Their obsession with the power of certain numbers--including 137, which describes the atom's fine-structure constant and has great Kabbalistic significance--led them to develop an unlikely friendship and to embark on a joint mystical quest reaching deep into medieval alchemy, dream interpretation, and the Chinese Book of Changes. 137 explores the profound intersection of modern science with the occult, but above all it is the tale of an extraordinary, fruitful friendship between two of the greatest thinkers of our times. Originally published in hardcover as Deciphering the Cosmic Number.

Author: Arthur I. Miller
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/17/2010
Pages: 370
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.24h x 6.58w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9780393338645
ISBN10: 0393338649
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics | General