QUARK AND THE JAGUAR: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex - Brossura

Gell-Mann, Murray

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0805072535 ISBN 13: 9780805072532

Casa editrice: Griffin, 1995

Riassunto

From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers, and other complex adaptive systems. Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann offers a uniquely personal and unifying vision of the relationship between the fundamental laws of physics and the complexity and diversity of the natural world.

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L'autore:

Murray Gell-Mann, the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor Emeritus of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics. In 1984, he helped establish the Santa Fe Institute, where he now works. A longtime director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Professor Gell-Man served as chairman of its Committee on World Environment and Resources.

Product Description:

What does a quark inside an atom have to do with a jaguar circling his jungle territory? What can the study of particle physics add to our understanding of natural selection, linguistics, child development, economics, and computers? Find out with Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann's personal account of his search for the connections between the universe's fundamental laws and nature at its most complex. 40 illustrations.

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• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0805072535
• ISBN 13: 9780805072532
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 414