In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems Hardcover – Import, 11 July 2023

He's really a fascinating character.I like that it chronicled some of his life as well as the technology of the time.I can't imagine trying to dictate an entire publication over an international call.We can hardly handle the grocery list!"Just text me". They couldn't!

Thought provoking and a really interesting read

The first 18 pages was about his experience trying to define and capture how a collective gathering of starlings can move with incredible unison. He went into detail explaining how he organized a method to achieve his goal of recreating a three dimenssional model by using photography of the flock in flight, as well as adding some physics to the process.The remaining 102 pages was about his career in physics at the quantum level. All very interesting even if I didn't grasp the more detailed parts of atomic structures and their behaviors with each other.The last three chapters were very good - "Metaphor in Science", "How Ideas are Born", and "The Meaning of Science." These chapters helped bridge the two parts of the book.I was still hoping to read about other example of complex sysyems. He did write briefly about "waves-and-wheat comparisons."Overall his writing skills are very good - easy to follow and grasp without getting lost in his thoughts.

Read a rave review, so I bought it. It's ok, but it doesn't really engage me.

I read the book from the library, and after the story about the starlings, it quickly gets very complicated. I barely got through the required physics class in college, and that was many years ago. So I ordered the book so I could study it at my leisure. And I included the workbook by Sandra Huit. DONT WASTE MONEY ON THE WORKBOOK.