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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Titolo

Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise

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HarperCollins Publishers, New York

Data di pubblicazione

1994

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

0060168889

ISBN 13

9780060168889

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Rilegato

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First Edition. First Printing.

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A mathematician explores how complexity arises, showing how the universe consists of unpredictable "dynamical systems" so subtle that human logic cannot fathom them and laying the groundwork for a "Science of Surprise." 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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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.

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