From Strange Simplicity to Complex Familiarity: A Treatise on Matter, Information, Life and Thought

by Manfred Eigen

Book Overview

This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences. It starts with the "strange" physics of matter, including particle physics, atomic physics and quantum mechanics, cosmology, relativity and their consequences (Chapter I), and it continues by describing the properties of material systems that are best understood by statistical and phase-space concepts (Chapter II). These lead to entropy and to the classical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198841949
• ISBN13: 9780198841944
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 9.6"