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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

Name: Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: M. Mitchell Waldrop
ISBN: 9780671767891

M. Mitchell Waldrop

01/11/1992
Simon & Schuster

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Couverture de Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos par M. Mitchell Waldrop

Résumé

Why did the U.S.S.R. collapse so suddenly after more than half a century as a superpower? What caused the stock market to take a 500-point nosedive in October 1987? How did simple amino acids combine to produce living organisms four billion years ago? To explore the implications of questions like these, researchers from ponytailed grad student to Nobel laureates are challenging old ideas with exciting new insights. Line drawings.