Isbn: 9780449910818 - frontiers of complexity: the search for order in a choatic world (9 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 488 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 462 pages. SCIENCE JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST. . . An impeccably researched, amazingly up-to-d ate, crisply written and well-illustrated survey.--NatureAt the cutting edge of the sciences, a dynamic new concept is emerging: complexity. In this gr oundbreaking new book, Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield explore how complexity in mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, and even the social sciences is tra nsforming not only the way we think about the universe, but also the very assump tions that underlie conventional science. Complexity is a watchword for a ne w way of thinking about the behavior of interacting units, whether they are atom s, ants in a colony, or neurons firing in a human brain. The rise of the electro nic computer provided both the key and the catalyst to our exploration of comple xity. A new generation of computers that runs on light and exploits the biza rre properties of quantum mechanics promises to deepen our understanding still f urther. The advances we have already witnessed are spectacular. The authors take us inside laboratories where scientists are evolving the genetic molecules that enabled life to emerge on earth and generating universes teeming with virtual c reatures in cyber-space. We witness the utterly realistic behavior of a school o f virtual fish--computer-generated replicas that have been trained to swim grace fully, hunt for food, and scatter at the approach of a leopard shark. Compel ling in its clarity, far-reaching in its implications, vibrant with the exciteme nt of new discovery, Frontiers of Complexity is an arresting account of how far science has come in the past fifty years and an essential guide to the rapidly a pproaching future.[A] MARVELOUS AND COMPREHENSIVE WORK . . . Virtually any.…

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