John Gribbin

Deep Simplicity

Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life

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Produktbeschreibung

The world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom seem to get it right - even other people continue to baffle us. How do we make sense of it all? This title illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9780141007229
• ISBN-10: 0141007222
• Artikelnr.: 13281567

Autorenporträt

John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science and the author of bestselling books, including In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, Stardust, Science: A History and Deep Simplicity. He is famous to his many fans for making complex ideas simple, and says that his aim in his writing - much of it done with his wife, Mary Gribbin - is to share with his readers his sense of wonder at the strangeness of the universe. John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.