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The world is shaped by complexity. In this enlightening book, Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work to show us how. It all starts with investigating the principles of physics by observing the sophisticated flight patterns of starlings. Studying the movements of these birds, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding complex systems of all kinds - collections of everything from atoms to planets to other animals like ourselves.

Four thousand years ago, someone in Mohenjo-Daro carved a tiny stone seal. On it: a unicorn with muscles so finely rendered you can count the tendons, and above it, a string of mysterious signs that no one has been able to read since the city fell silent. That seal survived earthquakes, floods, and the full weight of four millennia. It looks like it was made yesterday morning. For a century, scholars tried to crack the Indus script the way you crack a code—by finding the language hidden inside. They all failed. Every last one.

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science “[Giorgio Parisi is] an extraordinary scientist.” —Carlo Rovelli With In a Flight of Starlings, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox...