Description
From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers, and other complex adaptive systems. Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann offers a uniquely personal and unifying vision of the relationship between the fundamental laws of physics and the complexity and diversity of the natural world.
Author: Murray Gell-Mann
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 09/05/2000
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780805072532
ISBN10: 0805072535
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics | Quantum Theory
- Biography & Autobiography | General
About the Author
Murray Gell-Mann, the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor Emeritus of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics. In 1984, he helped establish the Santa Fe Institute, where he now works. A longtime director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Professor Gell-Man served as chairman of its Committee on World Environment and Resources.
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