Thinking in Complexity: The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind - Couverture rigide

Mainzer, Klaus

 
9783540002390: Thinking in Complexity: The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind

Synopsis

The theory of nonlinear, complex systems has become by now a proven problem-solving approach in the natural sciences. And it is now also recognized that many if not most of our social, ecological, economical and political problems are essentially of a global, complex and nonlinear nature. And it is now further accepted than any holistic perspective of the human mind and brain can hardly be achieved by any other approach. In this wide-ranging, scholarly but very concise treatment, physicist, computer scientist and philosopher Klaus Mainzer discusses, in essentially nontechnical language, the common framework behind these ideas and challenges. Emphasis is given to the evolution of new structures in natural and cultural systems and we are lead to see clearly how the new integrative approach can give insights not available from traditional reductionistic methods. The fifth edition enlarges and revises almost all sections and supplements an entirely new chapter on the complexity of economic systems.

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ISBN 10 :  3540837868 ISBN 13 :  9783540837862
Editeur : Springer, 2008
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