Evolving Hierarchical Systems: Their Structure and Representation

Salthe, Stanley N.

ISBN 10: 0231060165 / ISBN 13: 9780231060165

Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1985

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23x15cm, x, 343 pages. Contents: An Introduction: Structure & Representation of the World; The Individual Entity; Some Basics of Hierarchical Structure; Representing a Dynamic System Hierarchically: The Basic Triadic System; Representing a Dynamic System Hierarchically: The Nontransitivity of Effects Across Levels; The Explicit Elaboration of a Hierarchy of Nature; Organic Evolution & the Hierarchy of Nature; Organic Evolution: Its Origin & Hierarchical Structure; Appendix. Some wear. Some stains to binding. Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evolving Hierarchical Systems: Their Structure and Representation
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0231060165
• ISBN 13: 9780231060165
• Binding: orig. cloth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Evolutionary Biology

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Synopsis

Seeks to represent the order in nature by discriminating a hierarchical system and defining the logical boundaries of the concepts inherent in this system (such as time, causality, complexity, partitioning, scale, and polarity). This book describes the principles of hierarchical structure.