Physics, nature and society : a guide to order and complexity in our world /

Physics, nature and society : a guide to order and complexity in our world /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Marro, Joaquín, 1945- author.
Imprint:	Cham : Springer, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 204 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	The Frontiers Collection, 1612-3018 Frontiers collection.
Subject:	Physics -- Popular works. Physics -- Philosophy. Physics. Physics -- Philosophy. Popular works.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11082434

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ISBN:	9783319020242 3319020242 3319020234 9783319020235 9783319020235
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2013).
Summary:	This wide-ranging and accessible book serves as a fascinating guide to the strategies and concepts that help us understand the boundaries between physics, on the one hand, and sociology, economics, and biology on the other. From cooperation and criticality to flock dynamics and fractals, the author addresses many of the topics belonging to the broad theme of complexity. He chooses excellent examples (requiring no prior mathematical knowledge) to illuminate these ideas and their implications. The lively style and clear description of the relevant models will appeal both to novices and those with an existing knowledge of the field.
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-02024-2

Table of Contents:

A glance at the method
The automata
Chaotic and noisy
Critical worlds
Chance and necessity
Size does not always matter
Living things
Interacting humans
Epilogue.