The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World (Penguin science)

Jack Cohen; Ian Stewart

ISBN 10: 0140246754 / ISBN 13: 9780140246759

Editore: Penguin, 1995

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1995. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good. . . . . Codice articolo KTS0037644

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Titolo: The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering ...

Casa editrice: Penguin

Data di pubblicazione: 1995

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: Very Good

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Science's traditional answers to the question: "How does complexity arise in nature?" are given at the beginning of this book. It shows how intelligence and human culture can be traced back to atomic structure, reducing the whole of nature to simple laws of fundamental physics. However, the book then proceeds to show that "How does complexity arise?" is really the wrong question. It proposes that a more interesting question is "Why do simple structures exist at all?". Scientific reductionism is useful but does not give the whole truth: it tells how but not why; it looks at insides but not outsides, content but not context. The subject-matter of traditional science is re-examined from a different viewpoint, focusing on the ability of complicated rules to generate simple behaviour, through the "collapse of chaos".