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 perme
Safety critical and high-integrity systems, such as industrial plants and economic systems can be subject to abrupt changes - for instance due to component or interconnection failure, and sudden envir
In this book/CD-ROM package, Yarnold (emergency medicine, University of Illinois) and Soltysik (scientific programming, Veterans Affairs Chicago Health Care System) offer a statistical analysis paradi
In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just anintellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole.Followers of cybernetics viewe
This monograph is devoted to the identification and measurement theory of costs and benefits in a fuzzy information environment. The process of cost-benefit analysis is presented, requiring the develo
This book contains a selection of papers submitted to the Workshop on Coding, Cryptography and Combinatorics (CCC 2003). An important feature of the book are invited surveys on key topics such as Bool
Bierbrauer (mathematics, Michigan Technological U.) introduces the mathematical theory of error-correcting codes and its major application areas, such as in statistics, signal processing, and areas of
The book describes what these models are, what they are based on, how they function, and then, most innovatively, how they can be used to generate new useful knowledge about the environmental system.
This book presents some facts and methods of the Mathematical Control Theory treated from the geometric point of view. The book is mainly based on graduate courses given by the first coauthor in the y
Based on courses given at the universities of Texas and California, this book treats an active field of research that touches upon the foundations of physics and chemistry. It presents, in as simple a
The range and diversity of papers in Dynamical Systems and Control demonstrate the reach of the subject. All of these contributed papers shed light on a multiplicity of physical, biological, and econ
A pioneer in the scientific field of synchronicity examines the ground-breaking work of physicists and mathematicians out to prove how spontaneous order emerges from chaos, and offers a fascinating gl
This monograph contains the results of my research in the area of asymmet ric theory of elasticity, conducted from 1969 to 1986 under the direction of PROFESSOR WITOLD NOWACKI. I am indebted to PROFE
This book is an often-requested reprint of two classic texts by H. Haken: "Synergetics. An Introduction" and "Advanced Synergetics". Synergetics, an interdisciplinary research program initiated by H.
This book covers the central ideas and concepts of chaos and fractals as well as many related topics including the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, cellular automata, L-systems, percolation, and strange a
