Pwa90: A Lifetime Of Emergence - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9814733628 ISBN 13: 9789814733625

Publisher: WSPC, 2015

Synopsis

 

In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W Anderson has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his oft-quoted phrase "More is Different", Anderson has been the most forceful and persuasive proponent of the radical, but now ubiquitous, viewpoint of emergent phenomena: truly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale. Anderson's ideas have also extended deeply into other areas of physics, including the Anderson–Higgs mechanism and the dynamics of pulsars.

PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence is a volume of original scientific essays and personal reminiscences of Philip W Anderson by experts in the field, that were presented as part of "PWA90: Emergent Frontiers of Condensed Matter" meeting held at Princeton in December 2013 to highlight Anderson's contributions to physics.

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Review

This book collects a number of intriguing and lively contributions from Anderson's students, collaborators and distinguished colleagues, which will appeal to both high-energy and condensed-matter physicists. --CERN Courier

Edition details

• Publisher: WSPC
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814733628
• ISBN 13: 9789814733625
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Chandra Premi, Coleman Piers, Kotliar Gabi