Untangling Complex Systems
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Untangling Complex Systems

A Grand Challenge for Science

  1. 568 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Untangling Complex Systems

A Grand Challenge for Science

About this book

Complex Systems are natural systems that science is unable to describe exhaustively. Examples of Complex Systems are both unicellular and multicellular living beings; human brains; human immune systems; ecosystems; human societies; the global economy; the climate and geology of our planet. This book is an account of a marvelous interdisciplinary journey the author made to understand properties of the Complex Systems. He has undertaken his trip, equipped with the fundamental principles of physical chemistry, in particular, the Second Law of Thermodynamics that describes the spontaneous evolution of our universe, and the tools of Non-linear dynamics. By dealing with many disciplines, in particular, chemistry, biology, physics, economy, and philosophy, the author demonstrates that Complex Systems are intertwined networks, working in out-of-equilibrium conditions, which exhibit emergent properties, such as self-organization phenomena and chaotic behaviors in time and space.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780429847547
Topic
Mathematics
Subtopic
Arithmetic
Index
Mathematics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. About the Author
  11. Chapter 1 Introduction
  12. Chapter 2 Reversibility or Irreversibility? That Is the Question!
  13. Chapter 3 Out-of-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
  14. Chapter 4 An Amazing Scientific Voyage: From Equilibrium up to Self-Organization through Bifurcations
  15. Chapter 5 The Emergence of Temporal Order in the Ecosystems
  16. Chapter 6 The Emergence of Temporal Order in the Economy
  17. Chapter 7 The Emergence of Temporal Order within a Living Being
  18. Chapter 8 The Emergence of Temporal Order in a Chemical Laboratory
  19. Chapter 9 The Emergence of Order in Space
  20. Chapter 10 The Emergence of Chaos in Time
  21. Chapter 11 Chaos in Space: The Fractals
  22. Chapter 12 Complex Systems
  23. Chapter 13 How to Untangle Complex Systems?
  24. Appendix A: Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations
  25. Appendix B: The Maximum Entropy Method
  26. Appendix C: Fourier Transform of Waveforms
  27. Appendix D: Errors and Uncertainties in Laboratory Experiments
  28. Appendix E: Errors in Numerical Computation
  29. References
  30. Index