The collapse of chaos : discovering simplicity in a complex world

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The collapse of chaos : discovering simplicity in a complex world

Jack S. Cohen and Ian Stewart

(Penguin books)

Penguin, 1995

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First published in the U.S. by Viking Penguin, 1994

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Science's traditional answers to the question: "How does complexity arise in nature?" are given at the beginning of this book. It shows how intelligence and human culture can be traced back to atomic structure, reducing the whole of nature to simple laws of fundamental physics. However, the book then proceeds to show that "How does complexity arise?" is really the wrong question. It proposes that a more interesting question is "Why do simple structures exist at all?". Scientific reductionism is useful but does not give the whole truth: it tells how but not why; it looks at insides but not outsides, content but not context. The subject-matter of traditional science is re-examined from a different viewpoint, focusing on the ability of complicated rules to generate simple behaviour, through the "collapse of chaos".

目次

  • Simplicity and complexity
  • the laws of nature
  • the organization of development
  • the possibilities of evolution
  • the origins of human understanding
  • systems of interactive behaviour
  • complexity and simplicity
  • the nature of laws
  • the development of organizations
  • the evolution of possibilities
  • the understanding of human origins
  • the behaviour of interactive systems
  • complicity and simplexity.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA26006924
  • ISBN
    • 0140246754
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Harmondsworth, Middlesex
  • ページ数/冊数
    495 p.
  • 大きさ
    20 cm
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