The quark and the jaguar : adventures in the simple and the complex /
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...
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New York :
W.H. Freeman and Company,
[1994]
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Table of 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.