Nobel prizewinner Murray Gell-Mann tells it in his own words in The Quark and The Jaguar (Abacus, £8.99 pbk, ISBN 0 349 10649 5). And the words are well worth reading in this history of particle physics by the man who predicted the existence ofthe quark. Try him on the notion of fitness applied to creative ideas and his analysis of what random means. The subtitle “Adventures in the simple and the complex” is probably the best summing up of a brilliant book.
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