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The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
by Gell-Mann, Murray, Professor
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0716727250
- ISBN 13
- 9780716727255
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W. H. Freeman, 1995. Softcover. Like New. 5x1x10. 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 quarkâthe 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. The Quark and the Jaguar is an engaging, elegantly written introduction to the life's work of one of this century's most accomplished and influential scientists. This 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 relationships between them becomes a series of exciting intellectual adventures.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010022291
- Title
- The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
- Author
- Gell-Mann, Murray, Professor
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0716727250
- ISBN 13
- 9780716727255
- Publisher
- W. H. Freeman
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 5x1x10
- X weight
- 20 oz
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