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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
作者: Gribbin, John
出版社: Random House (2005年04月04日)
页数: 304页
语种: 英语
ISBN: 9781400062560
条形码: 9781400062560
商品重量: 430.00g
商品尺寸: 21.64cm * 14.78cm * 2.62cm
内容简介
In the 1980s, a groundbreaking new idea sought to explain why the world is often unpredictable. An astrophysicist describes the principles behind chaos and complexity theory, and the tremendous achievements made over the past two decades in the applications of these theories.
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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 permeate the universe on every scale, governing the evolution of life and galaxies alike.
Biographical Note
JOHN GRIBBIN trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex. His many books include In Search of Schr枚dinger's Cat, Stardust, Schr枚dinger's Kittens and The Search for Reality Fitzroy (with his wife, Mary Gribbin), Science: A History, and The Scientists.
Review Citations
Publishers Weekly 02/21/2005 pg.165 (EAN 9781400062560)
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg.133 (EAN 9781400062560)
Booklist 03/01/2005 pg.1114 (EAN 9781400062560)
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