Deep simplicity : bringing order to chaos and complexity
By: Gribbin, John
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BookPublisher: New York : Random House, 2005.Description: xxi, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781400062560Subject(s): Chaotic behavior in systems | Science -- Philosophy | Complexity (Philosophy)DDC classification: 003.857 GR DE Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 003.857 GR DE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0059035 |
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| 003.72 ER CO Complex networks : | 003.83 BA DI Discrete-event system simulation / | 003.83 BA DI Discrete-event system simulation / | 003.857 GR DE Deep simplicity : | 004.6782 CL OU Cloud computing for optimization : | 004 AD AP Adaptive, dynamic, and resilient systems | 004 AD VA Advances in mobile computing and communications : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines-from biology to physics, computing to meteorology-than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore, in prose that communicates not only the wonder but the substance of cutting-edge science, the principles behind chaos and complexity. He reveals the remarkable ways these two revolutionary theories have been applied over the last twenty years to explain all sorts of phenomena-from weather patterns to mass extinctions.
Grounding these paradigm-shifting ideas in their historical context, Gribbin also traces their development from Newton to Darwin to Lorenz, Prigogine, and Lovelock, demonstrating how-far from overturning all that has gone before-chaos and complexity are the triumphant extensions of simple scientific laws. Ultimately, Gribbin illustrates how chaos and complexity permeate the universe on every scale, governing the evolution of life and galaxies alike.