Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise

Casti, John L.

ISBN 10: 0060168889 / ISBN 13: 9780060168889

Edité par HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1994

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320, illus. with 60 line drawings, index, minor page rippling to several pages (spilled water? no staining) A renowned mathematician from the Santa Fe Institute presents a groundbreaking work that expands our understanding of the universe and helps explain what is now inexplicable in a myriad of daily events. Popular science author and mathematician Casti writes for the lay audience about five reasons why everyday systems display surprising, counterintuitive behavior: catastrophes (small changes leading to big shifts in behavior), chaos (rules that generate apparently random results), uncomputability (behaviors that defy characterization by any set of rules), irreducibility (a system that is more than the sum of its parts), and emergence (patterns arising from collective interactions).

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• Titre: Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise
• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers, New York
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0060168889
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780060168889
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition. First Printing.
• État de l'article: good, good

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Book by Casti John L

À propos de l?auteur

American complexity scientist and systems theoristJohn Casti, is cofounder of The X-Center, a Viennabasedresearch institute focusing on human-causedextreme events and how to anticipate them. Casti haspublished nearly twenty volumes of academic and popularscience and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from theUniversity of Southern California. He lives in Vienna,Austria.