This book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel. A must read for every TOE researcher.

Greene shows how recent cutting-edge developments in superstring and M-theory may reconcile the behavior of everything from the smallest particle to the largest black hole.

For the serious lay reader, the most comprehensive and sophisticated account we have yet had of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory.