Strange Beauty
(2023)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Santa Fe Institute of Science, 2023
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781947864511 MWT16676223, 1947864513 16676223
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way. Beautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man, interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with scrupulous clarity and simplicity, Strange Beauty is a tour de force of both science writing and biography. This updated edition, with a new foreword by Douglas Hofstadter, includes reflections on the final years of Gell-Mann's life and his influence on the Santa Fe Institute
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