Translated by Betty H. and Serge A. Korff and published by Van Nostrand in 1950. The review below is from Science magazine, November 21, 1952.
Although there may be some parallels of thought within his single massive atom, neither Lemaître’s nor Hawking’s infinitely-small, infinitely dense, infinitely-hot big bang acknowledge the oldest, most-used equation within our mathematical-scientific world. Of course, that is pi(π). Neither has a place for dimensionless constants.
More recently, our scholars’s scholars — Wilczek, Aguirre, Rees, and Tegmark — thought the universe could be constructed with 31 dimensionless constants. They needed a starting point and had they focused on pi(π), this group may have begun to figure it out in 2006.
Is this edition of Lemaître’s book anywhere else online?
If you find another link, please share it! -BEC
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Originally published in 1946 in French, L’Hypothèse de l’atome primitif. Essai de cosmogonie,
Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Editions du Griffon, and Brussels, Editions Hermès, 1946
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