Sailing the Ocean of Complexity: Lessons from the Physics-Biology Frontier

Sauro Succi

ISBN 10: 0192897896 / ISBN 13: 9780192897893

Published by OUP Oxford 2022-06-01, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sailing the Ocean of Complexity: Lessons from the Physics-Biology Frontier
• Publisher: OUP Oxford 2022-06-01
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192897896
• ISBN 13: 9780192897893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The book provides a non-specialist introduction to the reasons why we can make sense of the world around and within us, facing the oceans of complexity which inhabit both. The book provides a scientific and easily accessible description of some of the key physical mechanisms by which the wonderful gift of life materializes in the natural world.

About the Author

Sauro Succi, Senior Research Executive and Principal Investigator, La Sapienza, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome

Sauro Succi graduated in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna and holds a PhD in Physics from the Swiss Polytechnique Institute in Lausanne. He has been working at several Italian and European institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, EPFL, IBM Europe, The Italian National Research Council and lately the Italian Institute of Technology. He also held numerous teaching and research appointments in Europe and USA, particularly at Harvard University.