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In A Flight of Starlings. The Wonders of Complex Systems

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  • Categories:Physics
  • Language:Italian(Translation Services Available)
  • Publication date:November,2021
  • Pages:128
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★A journey in the life, in discovery, and into the mind of the Nobel prize winner for Physics 2021.
★“The Nobel Prize awarded to Giorgio Parisi rewards an extraordinary scientist and confirms the stellar level of the Italian school of theoretical physics." ─ Carlo Rovelli

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Experimental realities that seem to escape known laws, research that leads to discoveries that even surprise the researcher, flashes of physical and mathematical intuition: this is the world that Giorgio Parisi, winner of the 2021 Nobel prize, has examined for more than fifty years. From 1966, when he entered the Physics Institute in Rome for the first time (from the back entrance, as first and second year students weren’t allowed to use the main door) to almost taking the Nobel at 25 years of age; from his pioneering studies on particles to his interest in complex phenomena like phase transitions, spin glass, and the flight of starlings; from his reflections on how ideas are born to the role of science in today’s society, this book is a journey into the genius mind of a physicist that sought out the rules of complex systems, because to him, the simple ones always seemed a bit too boring.
“Ideas are often like a boomerang; they start out in one direction but end up taking another. If you obtain interesting and unusual results, the applications can appear in entirely unforeseen fields.”
“In physics and mathematics there is a striking imbalance between the endeavour to understand something new for the first time and the simplicity and naturalness of the result once the various steps are completed. The final product, in science as in poetry, contains no trace of the struggle throughout the creative process and the doubts and hesitation that accompany it.”
“The best work from a lifetime of research can materialise inadvertently; you come across it by chance on a path you’re taking somewhere else.”

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GIORGIO PARISI graduated from La Sapienza University of Rome in 1970 and immediately worked as a researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali in Frascati from 1971 to 1981. In 1981, he was a full professor of Theoretical Physics at the Tor Vergata University of Rome and then of Quantum Theories at La Sapienza. Since 1988 he has been a member of the National Academy of the Lincei, the oldest scientific academy in the world (of which he was president and is now vice-president), since 1992 of the American National Academy of Sciences (one of the three Italian physicists, together with Carlo Rubbia and Michele Parrinello), ince 1993 of the French Academy of Sciences, and since 2013 of the American Philosophical Society. In October 2021, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics " for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales "

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