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Complex systems

Giorgio Parisi: the Nobel-prize winner whose complex interests stretch from spin glasses to starlings

02 Aug 2023

Philip Ball reviews In a Flight of Starlings: the Wonder of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi (translated by Simon Carnell)

large flock of starlings
Universal insights Giorgio Parisi’s work centres on the fact that many complex systems – be they flocks of starlings or groups of magnetic atoms in a spin glass – share the same underlying physics. (Courtesy: iStock/AGD Beukhof)
When Giorgio Parisi was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics alongside Klaus Hasselmann and Syuk

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Philip Ball is a science writer based in the UK, whose latest book is The Book of Minds (2022), e-mail p.ball@btinternet.com
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