{"product_id":"pwa90-chandra-premi-9789814733625","title":"Pwa90: A Lifetime of Emergence","description":"\u003cp\u003e \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: \u003cem\u003etruly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale\u003c\/em\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\u003cem\u003ePWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence\u003c\/em\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chandra Premi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9814733628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789814733625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e World Scientific Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.60w x 0.50d","brand":"Chandra Premi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48446719656191,"sku":"9789814733625","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_263fdc54-71ae-43f4-82fb-8c98e7409470.jpg?v=1777226506","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pwa90-chandra-premi-9789814733625","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}