How Nature Works. The Science Of Self-Organized Criticality - Couverture rigide

Bak, Per

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198501641 ISBN 13 : 9780198501640

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1997

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Self-organized criticality, the spontaneous development of systems to a critical state, is the first general theory of complex systems with a firm mathematical basis. This theory describes how many seemingly desperate aspects of the world, from stock market crashes to mass extinctions, avalanches to solar flares, all share a set of simple, easily described properties. " . . . a 'must read' . . . Bak writes with such ease and lucidity, and his ideas are so intriguing . . . essential reading for those interested in complex systems . . . it will reward a sufficiently skeptical reader" -NATURE " . . . presents the theory (self-organized criticality) in a form easily absorbed by the non-mathematically inclined reader" -BOSTON BOOK REVIEW "I picture Bak as a kind of scientific musketeer; flamboyant, touchy, full of swagger and ready to join every fray . . . His book is written with panache. The style is brisk, the content stimulating. I recommend it as a bracing experience" -NEW SCIENTIST

Biographie de l'auteur

Per Bak is a professor in the Physics Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has published over 150 papers, including articles in Scientific American and New Scientist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0198501641
• ISBN 13: 9780198501640
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 225