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

Gell-Mann, Murray

Published by W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1994

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xviii, 392 pages: illustrations; 25 cm;,index. "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."- Publisher ? Contents: Prologue: An Encounter in the Jungle; Early Light; Information and Crude Complexity; RANDomness; A Child Learning a Language; Bacteria Developing Drug Resistence; The Scientific Enterprise; The Power of Theory; What Is Fundamental?; Simplicity and Randomness in the Quantum Universe; A Contemporary View of Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Mechanics and the Classical Approximation; Quantum Mechanics and Flapdoodle; Quarks and All That: The Standard Model; Superstring Theory: Unification at Last?; Time's Arrows: Forward and Backward Time; Selection at Work in Biological Evolution and Elsewhere; From Learning to Creative Thinking; Superstition and Skepticism; Adaptive and Maladaptive Schema; Machines That Learn or Simulate Learning; Diversities Under Threat; Transitions to a More Sustainable World; Afterword. About fine in fine original partly transparent fine jacket First ed., first printing (full number line). Seller Inventory # 101896

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Title: The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the ...

Publisher: W.H. Freeman and Company, New York

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition