by Murray Gell-Mann · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226076021
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«Le Quark et le Jaguar» is Murray Gell-Mann's popular science essay, published by Albin Michel in paperback (446 pages, in French).
The book starts from personal memories and anecdotes to present an essay in four blocks —the simple and the complex, the quantum universe, selection and adaptation, diversity and durability— in which Gell-Mann analyzes how the fundamental laws of nature intersect with chance, without requiring the reader to have prior technical training.
Original: 'The Quark and the Jaguar' (1994); this 1995 French edition translated by Gilles Minot. Gell-Mann won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for the quark theory.
For readers interested in science and the philosophy of nature who are looking for a popular science work without the need for prior training in physics.
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Murray Gell-Mann was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as the fundamental building blocks of the strongly interacting particles, and the renormalization group as a foundational element of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. Murray Gell-Mann received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.
