Science Concert

Author: [Korean] Jeong Jaecheng
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This book is dedicated to uncovering many fascinating scientific stories hidden behind complex social phenomena and sharing them with readers. In numerous fields such as economics, society, culture, music, art, transportation, and history, seemingly unrelated social phenomena can actually be fundamentally interconnected using just a few concepts like chaos and fractals, Zipf's law, 1/f, and so on. The reasoning becomes self-evident. Isn’t that amazing? This is the purpose of this book. Have you ever had such experiences? You go on a date with someone important, only to spill coffee on yourself, or miss the train and arrive late; you finally look forward to a spring outing, but it rains; you’re full of confidence about getting good grades, only to get sick during the exam. Things like this happen all the time. Life always has its disappointments, and it seems that the number of unpleasant moments far outweighs the pleasant ones. "Why me?" You sigh, complain about fate, and gradually turn into a grumbling person. It’s as if we’ve been bewitched, trapped in a terrible law. That’s right, it’s a law—a scientific law—and this book will tell you exactly what’s making you suffer. Science isn’t a profound discipline that only a few can study; it’s there to serve our lives, to eliminate inconveniences and worries for us. This book explains the various puzzling phenomena in our lives from a scientific perspective, like a lively concert—relaxing, soothing, beneficial, and interesting.