Disrupted networks : from physics to climate change

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Disrupted networks : from physics to climate change

Bruce J. West & Nichola Scafetta

(Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science, vol. 13)

World Scientific, c2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment, computation and theory (data, information and knowledge) of the twenty-first century in everything from psychophysics to climate change.This book is unique in that it addresses two parallel lines of argument. The first line is general and intended for a lay audience, but one that is scientifically sophisticated, explaining how the paradigm of science has been changed to accommodate the computer and large-scale computation. The second line of argument addresses what some consider the seminal scientific problem of climate change. The authors show how a misunderstanding of the change in the scientific paradigm has led to a misunderstanding of complex phenomena in general, and the causes of global warming in particular.

目次

  • Why a Science of Networks?
  • Data
  • Information
  • Knowledge
  • A World of Disrupted Networks.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB03540730
  • ISBN
    • 9789814304306
  • 出版国コード
    si
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Singapore
  • ページ数/冊数
    xii, 301 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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