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Complex Systems: Chaos and Beyond: A Constructive Approach with Applications in Life Sciences - Hardcover

Kaneko, Kunihiko; Tsuda, Ichiro

 
9783540672029: Complex Systems: Chaos and Beyond: A Constructive Approach with Applications in Life Sciences
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3540672028 ISBN 13: 9783540672029
Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

Chaos in science has always been a fascinating realm since it challenges the usual scientific approach of reductionism. While carefully distinguishing between complexity, holism, randomness, incompleteness, nondeterminism and stochastic behaviour the authors show that, although many aspects of chaos have been phenomenologically understood, most of its defining principles are still difficult to grasp and formulate. Demonstrating that chaos escapes all traditional methods of description, the authors set out to find new methods to deal with this phenomenon and illustrate their constructive approach with many examples from physics, biology and information technology. While maintaining a high level of rigour, an overly complicated mathematical apparatus is avoided in order to make this book accessible, beyond the specialist level, to a wider interdisciplinary readership.

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Chaos in science has always been a fascinating realm since it challenges the usual scientific approach of reductionism. While carefully distinguishing between complexity, holism, randomness, incompleteness, nondeterminism and stochastic behaviour the authors show that, although many aspects of chaos have been phenomenologically understood, most of its defining principles are still difficult to grasp and formulate. Demonstrating that chaos escapes all traditional methods of description, the authors set out to find new methods to deal with this phenomenon and illustrate their constructive approach with many examples from physics, biology and information technology. While maintaining a high level of rigour, an overly complicated mathematical apparatus is avoided in order to make this book accessible, beyond the specialist level, to a wider interdisciplinary readership.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3540672028
ISBN 13 
9783540672029
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
287