Einstein Meets Magritte, an Interdisciplinary Reflection: The White Book of 'Einstein Meets Magritte - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0792357574 ISBN 13 : 9780792357575

Editeur : Springer, 1999

Synopsis

Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection presents insights of the renowned key speakers of the interdisciplinary Einstein meets Magritte conference (1995, Brussels Free University). The contributions elaborate on fundamental questions of science, with regard to the contemporary world, and push beyond the borders of traditional approaches. All of the articles in this volume address this fundamental theme, but somewhere along the road the volume expanded to become much more than a mere expression of the conference's dynamics. The articles not only deal with several scientific disciplines, they also confront these fields with the full spectrum of contemporary life, and become new science. As such, this volume presents a state-of-the-art reflection of science in the world today, in all its diversity. The contributions are accessible to a large audience of scientists, students, educators, and everyone who wants to keep up with science today.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Evolution of Complexity is addressed to a broad audience of academics and researchers from different disciplines, who are interested in the picture of our world emerging from the new sciences of complexity. This book reviews the new concepts proposed by the diverse theories of evolution, self-organisation, general systems, cybernetics, and the 'complex adaptive systems' approach pioneered by the Santa Fe institute. The thread which holds everything together is the growth of complexity during the history of the universe: from elementary particles, via atoms, molecules, living cells, multicellular organisms, plants, and animals to human beings, and societies. The different sections of the book discuss the foundations and philosophy of complexity evolution, its mathematical and computer models, its explanation of self-organising and living systems, the insights it provides into the origin of mind, language and culture, and its practical applications in areas such as management and system design.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0792357574
• ISBN 13: 9780792357575
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Éditeur: Aerts Diederik, Broekaert Jan, Mathijs Ernest
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible