Complexity : Life at the Edge of Chaos

Lewin, Roger

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ISBN 10: 0226476553 / 0-226-47655-3
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Publication Date: 1992

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This volume examines complexity, a mix of complication and organisation that is found throughout the natural and human worlds: the workings of a cell, the structure of the brain, the behaviour of the stock market and the shifts of political power.


 

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