Sailing the Ocean of Complexity by Sauro Succi (Hardback Book)

Name: Sailing the Ocean of Complexity by Sauro Succi (Hardback Book)
Brand: Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

\""Both superb and essential... Succi, with clarity and wit, takes us from quarks and Boltzmann to soft matter - precisely the frontier of physics and life.\"" Stuart Kauffman, MacArthur Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Gold Medal Accademia LinceaWe live in a world of utmost complexity, outside and within us. There are thousand of billions of billions of stars out there in the Universe, a hundred times more molecules in a glass of water, and another hundred times more in our body, all working in sync to keep us alive and well. At face value, such numbers spell certain doom for our ability to make any sense at all of the world around and within us. And yet, they don't. Why, and how - this book endeavours to provide an answer to these questions with specific reference to a selected\n\nSailing the Ocean of Complexity\nLessons from the Physics-Biology Frontier\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked se;