Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise

Casti, John L.

ISBN 10: 0060168889 / ISBN 13: 9780060168889

Editore: HarperCollins, New York, 1994

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8vo, 320 pp.

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• Titolo: Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise
• Editore: HarperCollins, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0060168889
• ISBN 13: 9780060168889
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Disegnatore: Well-illustrated
• Edizione: 1st.
• Condizione: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.