Strange Beauty

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.

Author: George Johnson
Publisher: Santa Fe Institute of Science
Published: 12/04/2023
Pages: 610
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781947864504

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