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| Preface | ix | |
| Part I | The Simple and the Complex | |
| 1 | Prologue: An Encounter in the Jungle | 3 |
| 2 | Early Light | 11 |
| 3 | Information and Crude Complexity | 23 |
| 4 | Randomness | 43 |
| 5 | A Child Learning a Language | 51 |
| 6 | Bacteria Developing Drug Resistance | 63 |
| 7 | The Scientific Enterprise | 75 |
| 8 | The Power of Theory | 89 |
| 9 | What Is Fundamental? | 107 |
| Part II | The Quantum Universe | |
| 10 | Simplicity and Randomness in the Quantum Universe | 123 |
| 11 | A Contemporary View of Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Mechanics and the Classical Approximation | 135 |
| 12 | Quantum Mechanics and Flapdoodle | 167 |
| 13 | Quarks and All That: The Standard Model | 177 |
| 14 | Superstring Theory: Unification at Last? | 199 |
| 15 | Time's Arrows: Forward and Backward Time | 215 |
| Part III | Selection and Fitness | |
| 16 | Selection at Work in Biological Evolution and Elsewhere | 235 |
| 17 | From Learning to Creative Thinking | 261 |
| 18 | Superstition and Skepticism | 275 |
| 19 | Adaptive and Maladaptive Schemata | 291 |
| 20 | Machines That Learn or Simulate Learning | 307 |
| Part IV | Diversity and Sustainability | |
| 21 | Diversities Under Threat | 329 |
| 22 | Transitions to a More Sustainable World | 345 |
| 23 | Afterword | 367 |
| Index | 377 |
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Leticia Perez
reviewed Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex on August 14, 2007 Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
Geared towards a general audience'albeit one with a certain intellectual tenacity'this book does two things very well: it reconciles quantum physics with our everyday world, removing much of the unecessary mystery surrounding the subject, and it puts the reader in touch with the penumbra of mystery that surrounds even the most sober reason.
Not only did the nobel-prize winning author take the time to make his science accessible to the non-specialist, he anticipated counterarguments to his presentation (ones that often came to my mind while reading the text) and explained why they didn't work.
If you don't like it when people are smarter than you then don't read this book.
This book was a gift from my wife. Thanks Dorian!
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