Quarks and Jaguars -- Simplicity and Complexity

Author: (American) Gell-Mann, translated by Yang Jianye and others
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Publish Date: 1999-04-01
Features: "Human knowledge is usually locked in various strict compartments, but this book cuts across almost all sciences, exciting and stimulating. It is always a great pleasure to understand how flow scholars recognize and master the great secrets. These first-class scholars are always firmly opposed to mysticism when exploring the mysteries of nature." "To me, quarks and jaguars are the two aspects of simplicity and complexity in nature that I call. Quarks are a symbol in the laws of physics, once proposed, they are completely accepted before humans fully analyze them; jaguars are the same. Although people can smell their pungent odor in the bushes, they are also just a possible metaphor for an elusive complex adaptive system and have not been carefully analyzed." This is a book as interesting as the author himself, who weaves together seemingly unrelated things, such as the behavior of chimpanzees, avalanche mechanics, superstring theory, and Shakespeare, into a fascinating story—it's truly amazing!