In a flight of starlings : the wonders of complex systems / Giorgio Parisi ; in collaboration with Anna Parisi ; translated by Simon Carnell.
"From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science In In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: in...
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| Other title: | In un volo di storni. English Wonders of complex systems |
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| Language: | English Italian |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- In a flight of starlings
- Physics in Rome, around fifty years ago
- Je ne regrette rien
- Phase transitions, or collective phenomena
- Spin glasses: the introduction of disorder
- Metaphors in science
- How ideas are born
- The meaning of science.