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How Nature Works The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

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ISBN-10: 038798738X

ISBN-13: 9780387987385

Edition: 1996

Authors: Per Bak

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 4/23/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Preface and Acknowledgments
Complexity and Criticality
The Discovery of Self-Organized Criticality
The Sandpile Paradigm
Real Sandpiles and Landscape Formation
Earthquakes, Starquakes, and Solar Flares
The "Game of Life": Complexity Is Criticality
Is Life a Self-Organized Critical Phenomenon?
Mass Extinctions and Punctuated Equilibria in a Simple Model of Evolution
Theory of the Punctuated Equilibrium Model
The Brain
On Economics and Traffic Jams
Bibliography
Index