Frontiers of Complexity The Search for Order in a Choatic World

Name: Frontiers of Complexity The Search for Order in a Choatic World
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ISBN: 9780449910818

ISBN-10: 0449910814

ISBN-13: 9780449910818

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Authors: Peter Coveney, Roger Highfield, Baruch Blumberg

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"SCIENCE JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST. . . An impeccably researched, amazingly up-to-date, crisply written and well-illustrated survey." --Nature At the cutting edge of the sciences, a dynamic new concept is emerging: complexity. In this groundbreaking new book, Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield explore how complexity in mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, and even the social sciences is transforming not only the way we think about the universe, but also the very assumptions that underlie conventional science. Complexity is a watchword for a new way of thinking about the behavior of interacting units, whether they are atoms, ants in a colony, or neurons firing in a human brain. The rise of…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/27/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Roger Highfield is science editor of The Daily Telegraph and a regular broadcaster on the BBC. He lives in London.