There’s a growing lack of trust in science, with people denying Covid, or the need for vaccinations, or climate change. As a young child, I was interested in numbers – my mother told me I learned to read numbers aged three. 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.

I was really excited for what I thought this book was (a book from a Nobel prize winning physicist about complex systems) and ended up reading a memoir/essay collection instead. When the flock was turning, the impression that one has is that they are turning as a flock, but the reality is that some birds start to turn in advance and the others follow.You caused quite a stir in Italy recently when you claimed to have found a more energy efficient way to make pasta, by turning the heat off and putting the lid on two minutes after adding the pasta to boiling water. In this delightful and deeply thoughtful book, Giorgio Parisi weaves a tapestry of experiences and ideas that connects disciplines and prepares us to appreciate the beauty, importance, and cultural value of science. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. For this work, together with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, he won the Nobel prize in physics in 2021.

He studied physics at the Sapienza University in the city, and is now a professor of quantum theories there.We had a meeting of academics at the G7 in Paris in 2019, and one thing that we were very worried about was weapons systems controlled by AI.