Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order And Chaos (Penguin Science S.)

Waldrop, M.Mitchell

ISBN 10: 0140179682 / ISBN 13: 9780140179682

Published by Penguin, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order And Chaos (Penguin Science S.)
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140179682
• ISBN 13: 9780140179682
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 250 grams

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Synopsis

How has the universe created such complex structures as galaxies, planets, plants, animals and brains? Why does the economy work in unpredictable ways which cannot even be explained by economists? How can we account for such wonderfully intricate structures as the eye and kidney? This important and highly readable book shows how in all of these examples complex mechanisms are at work, in which numerous independent agents interact with each other creating spontaneous self-organization within the system, a special dynamism emerging of hte edge of chaos.

About the Author

M. Mitchell Waldrop has his doctorate in elementary particle physics and is the author of Man-Made Minds. He spent ten years as a senior writer for Science magazine, where he is now a contributing correspondent.