Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise

Casti, John L.

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ISBN 10: 0060168889 ISBN 13: 9780060168889

Published by Harpercollinspublishers, New York, 1994

Language: English

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Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise

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Harpercollinspublishers, New York

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

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0060168889

ISBN 13

9780060168889

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Hardcover

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First Edition.

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A mathematician explores how complexity arises, showing how the universe consists of unpredictable "dynamical systems" so subtle that human logic cannot fathom them and laying the groundwork for a "Science of Surprise." 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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American complexity scientist and systems theoristJohn Casti, is cofounder of The X-Center, a Viennabasedresearch institute focusing on human-causedextreme events and how to anticipate them. Casti haspublished nearly twenty volumes of academic and popularscience and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from theUniversity of Southern California. He lives in Vienna,Austria.

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