This book, the first in a series on this subject, is the outcome of many years of efforts to give a new all-encompassing approach to complex systems in nature based on chaos theory. While maintaining a high level of rigor, the authors avoid an overly complicated mathematical apparatus, making the book accessible to a wider interdisciplinary readership.
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"To sum up, the book should be a must-read for those interested in the modeling of coupled nonlinear systems…the interest of the global view of complexity that it provides makes it a highly recommendable read."
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Chaos in science has always been a fascinating realm since it challenges the usual scientific approach of reductionism. While carefully distinguishing between complexity, holism, randomness, incompleteness, nondeterminism and stochastic behaviour the authors show that, although many aspects of chaos have been phenomenologically understood, most of its defining principles are still difficult to grasp and formulate. Demonstrating that chaos escapes all traditional methods of description, the authors set out to find new methods to deal with this phenomenon and illustrate their constructive approach with many examples from physics, biology and information technology. While maintaining a high level of rigour, an overly complicated mathematical apparatus is avoided in order to make this book accessible, beyond the specialist level, to a wider interdisciplinary readership.
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Beyond Chaos but not Beyond Comprehension,
By Frederick H. Willeboordse (Singapore) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Complex Systems: Chaos and Beyond, A Constructive Approach with Applications in Life Sciences (Hardcover)
This is a book I've long been waiting for. It gives an excellent overview of how the study of complex systems and chaos brings together various branches of science with a special focus on Physics and the Biological Sciences. The book is not too technical yet highly to the point with philosophical and fundamental discussions and thus of great value to both expert and novice.
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desynchronized phase, descriptive instability, chaotic itinerancy, single logistic map, attractor ruins, developed spatiotemporal chaos, split exponent, coupled tent map, stochastic renewal, coupled chaotic systems, spatiotemporal intermittency, logistic lattice, globally coupled map, hidden coherence, qualitative universality classes, orbital instability, synchronized clusters, tub shops, peripheral blood pressure, coupled map lattices, randomly chosen initial conditions, local chaos, spatial chaos, coupled maps, slaving principle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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desynchronized phase, descriptive instability, chaotic itinerancy, single logistic map, attractor ruins, developed spatiotemporal chaos, split exponent, coupled tent map, stochastic renewal, coupled chaotic systems, spatiotemporal intermittency, logistic lattice, globally coupled map, hidden coherence, qualitative universality classes, orbital instability, synchronized clusters, tub shops, peripheral blood pressure, coupled map lattices, randomly chosen initial conditions, local chaos, spatial chaos, coupled maps, slaving principle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Theory and Applications of Coupled Map Lattices (Nonlinear Science: Theory and Applications) by K. Kaneko in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ordinary Differential Equations (Universitext) by Vladimir I. Arnold in Back Matter
- From Chemical to Biological Organization (Springer Series in Synergetics) by M. Markus in Back Matter
- Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems (Princeton Landmarks in Biology) by Robert M. May in Back Matter
- Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by A. Albrecht in Back Matter
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