COMPLEX SYSTEMS: CHAOS AND BEYOND: A Constructive Approach with Applications in Life Sciences

Kaneko, Kunihiko and Ichiro Tsuda

ISBN 10: 3540672028 / ISBN 13: 9783540672029

Editore: Springer, Berlin, 2001

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"By presenting an information-theoretical viewpoint of chaos, phenomena and concepts in the network of chaos elements, the authors set out to find new methods to deal with biological networks, in particular the brain, and also to illustrate their constructive approach with many examples from physics, biology and information technology." Octavo: 273 p. with 111 textual figures. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

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• Titolo: COMPLEX SYSTEMS: CHAOS AND BEYOND: A Constructive Approach with Applications in Life Sciences
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540672028
• ISBN 13: 9783540672029
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Science

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Riassunto

This book, the first in a series on this subject, is the outcome of many years of efforts to give a new all-encompassing approach to complex systems in nature based on chaos theory. While maintaining a high level of rigor, the authors avoid an overly complicated mathematical apparatus, making the book accessible to a wider interdisciplinary readership.

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Chaos in science has always been a fascinating realm since it challenges the usual scientific approach of reductionism. While carefully distinguishing between complexity, holism, randomness, incompleteness, nondeterminism and stochastic behaviour the authors show that, although many aspects of chaos have been phenomenologically understood, most of its defining principles are still difficult to grasp and formulate. Demonstrating that chaos escapes all traditional methods of description, the authors set out to find new methods to deal with this phenomenon and illustrate their constructive approach with many examples from physics, biology and information technology. While maintaining a high level of rigour, an overly complicated mathematical apparatus is avoided in order to make this book accessible, beyond the specialist level, to a wider interdisciplinary readership.