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In a Flight of Starlings : The Wonders of Complex Systems

By Giorgio Parisi

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2023
ISBN
9780593493151, 9780593493168
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5012196 bytes)
Pages
144\0
Time added
2023-07-11 10:33:00

Description

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science “[Giorgio Parisi is] an extraordinary scientist.” —Carlo Rovelli With In a Flight of Starlings, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work, starting with investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements of these communities, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding complex systems of all kinds—collections of everything from atoms and planets to other animals, such as ourselves. Along the way, he reflects on the lessons he has taken from a life in pursuit of scientific truth: the importance of serendipity to the discovery of new ideas, the surprising kinship between physics and other disciplines, and the value of science to a thriving society. In so doing, he removes the practice...

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