The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex

Murray Gell-Mann

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Owl Books, 2002

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375 pages. From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity co mes a highly personal, unifying vision of the natural world. As a theoretical ph ysicist, Murray Gell-Mann has explored nature at its most fundamental level. His achievements include the 1969 Nobel Prize for work leading up to his discovery of the quark?the basic building block of all atomic nuclei throughout the univ erse. But Gell-Mann is a man of many intellectual passions, with lifelong intere sts in fields that seek to understand existence at its most complex: natural his tory, biological evolution, the history of language, and the study of creative t hinking.These seemingly disparate pursuits come together in Gell-Mann's c urrent work at The Santa Fe Institute, where scientists are investigating the si milarities and differences among complex adaptive systems?systems that learn o r evolve by utilizing acquired information. They include a child learning his or her native language, a strain of bacteria becoming resistant to an antibiotic, the scientific community testing new theories, an artist implementing a creative idea, a society developing new customs or superstitions, a computer learning to play chess, or the human race evolving ways of living in greater harmony with i tself and with other inhabitants of the Earth.The Quark and the Jaguar is an engaging, elegantly written introduction to the life's work of one of this c entury's most accomplished and influential scientists. This is Gell-Mann's own s tory of finding the connections between the basic laws of physics and the comple xity and diversity of the natural world. The simple: a quark inside an atom. The complex: a jaguar prowling its jungle territory in the night. Exploring the rel.

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Título
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
Autor
Murray Gell-Mann
Editorial
Owl Books
Año de publicación
2002
Estado
Very Good
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0716727250
ISBN 13
9780716727255
Dimensiones
13.97cm x 2.72cm x 26.16cm
Catálogos de vendedores
Other Science

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