Disrupted Networks: From Physics to Climate Change: FROM PHY TO ...(V13): 13 - Rilegato

West, Bruce J.; Scafetta, Nicola

 
9789814304306: Disrupted Networks: From Physics to Climate Change: FROM PHY TO ...(V13): 13
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 9814304301 ISBN 13: 9789814304306
Casa editrice: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2010

Sinossi

This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment, computation and theory (data, information and knowledge) of the twenty-first century in everything from psychophysics to climate change.This book is unique in that it addresses two parallel lines of argument. The first line is general and intended for a lay audience, but one that is scientifically sophisticated, explaining how the paradigm of science has been changed to accommodate the computer and large-scale computation. The second line of argument addresses what some consider the seminal scientific problem of climate change. The authors show how a misunderstanding of the change in the scientific paradigm has led to a misunderstanding in complex phenomena in general, and the causes of global warming in particular.

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This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment, computation and theory (data, information and knowledge) of the twenty-first century in everything from psychophysics to climate change.This book is unique in that it addresses two parallel lines of argument. The first line is general and intended for a lay audience, but one that is scientifically sophisticated, explaining how the paradigm of science has been changed to accommodate the computer and large-scale computation. The second line of argument addresses what some consider the seminal scientific problem of climate change. The authors show how a misunderstanding of the change in the scientific paradigm has led to a misunderstanding in complex phenomena in general, and the causes of global warming in particular.

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Editore
World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
9814304301
ISBN 13 
9789814304306
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
301
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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