Author: MURRAY GELL-MANN
Title: The Quark and the Jaguar
Description: W.H. Freeman, 1994. Pp: 392. "From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes a highly personal, unifying vision of the natural world." "As a theoretical physicist, 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 universe. But Gell-Mann is a man of many intellectual passions, with lifelong interests in fields that seek to understand existence at its most complex: natural history, biological evolution, the history of language, and the study of creative thinking." "These seemingly disparate pursuits come together in Gell-Mann's current work at the Santa Fe Institute, where scientists are investigating the similarities and differences among complex adaptive systems - systems that learn or 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, or an artist implementing a creative idea." "The Quark and the Jaguar is Gell-Mann's own story of finding the connections between the basic laws of physics and the complexity 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 relationship between them becomes a series of exciting intellectual adventures."-BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ISBN: 9780716725817. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780716725817
Title: The Quark and the Jaguar
Description: W.H. Freeman, 1994. Pp: 392. "From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes a highly personal, unifying vision of the natural world." "As a theoretical physicist, 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 universe. But Gell-Mann is a man of many intellectual passions, with lifelong interests in fields that seek to understand existence at its most complex: natural history, biological evolution, the history of language, and the study of creative thinking." "These seemingly disparate pursuits come together in Gell-Mann's current work at the Santa Fe Institute, where scientists are investigating the similarities and differences among complex adaptive systems - systems that learn or 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, or an artist implementing a creative idea." "The Quark and the Jaguar is Gell-Mann's own story of finding the connections between the basic laws of physics and the complexity 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 relationship between them becomes a series of exciting intellectual adventures."-BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ISBN: 9780716725817. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780716725817
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- Book number: 1559904
- Book number: 1559904