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Strange beauty: Murray Gell-Mann & the revolution in physics

By George Johnson

Book information

Publisher
SFI Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781947864511
ASIN
B0CNGYSC4J
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5187737 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
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Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-05-14 04:14:47
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Description

Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way.Beautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man, interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with scrupulous clarity and simplicity, Strange Beauty is a tour de force of both science writing and biography. This updated edition, with a new foreword by Douglas Hofstadter, includes reflections on the final years of Gell-Mann’s life and his influence on the Santa Fe Institute.

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