{"product_id":"9789814733649","title":"PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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: \u003ci\u003etruly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale\u003c\/i\u003e. Anderson's ideas have also extended deeply into other areas of physics, including the Anderson–Higgs mechanism and the dynamics of pulsars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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: \u003ci\u003etruly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale\u003c\/i\u003e. Anderson's ideas have also extended deeply into other areas of physics, including the Anderson–Higgs mechanism and the dynamics of pulsars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership:\u003c\/b\u003e Students, academics and researchers in condensed matter.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185352982768,"sku":"9789814733649","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814733649_p0.jpg?v=1763691399","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814733649","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}