Our Mathematical Universe

Our Mathematical Universe:
My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Hardcover edition
AuthorMax Tegmark
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPhysics
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherKnopf
Publication date
January 7, 2014
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages432
ISBN978-0307599803

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality is a 2014 non-fiction book by the Swedish-American cosmologist Max Tegmark. Written in popular science format, the book interweaves what a New York Times reviewer called "an informative survey of exciting recent developments in astrophysics and quantum theory" with Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis, which posits that reality is a mathematical structure. This mathematical nature of the universe, Tegmark argues, has important consequences for the way researchers should approach many questions of physics.