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From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science

''Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side, too. By its end, readers will feel they''ve made a charming, witty new friend'' Frank Wilczek

The world is shaped by complexity. In this enlightening book, Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work to show us how. It all starts with investigating the principles of physics by observing the sophisticated flight patterns of starlings. Studying the movements of these birds, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding complex systems of all kinds - collections of everything from atoms to planets to other animals like ourselves.

Along the way, Parisi reflects on the lessons he''s taken from a life in pursuit of scientific truth: the importance o

In a Flight of Starlings

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7 November 2024
      ISBN-13 9781802060881
      978-1802060881
      ISBN-10 180206088X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science

      ''Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side, too. By its end, readers will feel they''ve made a charming, witty new friend'' Frank Wilczek

      The world is shaped by complexity. In this enlightening book, Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work to show us how. It all starts with investigating the principles of physics by observing the sophisticated flight patterns of starlings. Studying the movements of these birds, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding complex systems of all kinds - collections of everything from atoms to planets to other animals like ourselves.

      Along the way, Parisi reflects on the lessons he''s taken from a life in pursuit of scientific truth: the importance o

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