How Nature Works (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
212
Utgivningsdatum
1999-04-01
Upplaga
1st ed. 1996. 2nd printing 1999. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Förlag
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Medarbetare
Bak, P.
Illustratör/Fotograf
10 Farbtaf 47 Abb
Illustrationer
27 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography
Dimensioner
232 x 156 x 19 mm
Vikt
331 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780387987385

How Nature Works

The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

av Per Bak
Häftad,  Engelska, 1999-04-01
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This is an acclaimed book intended for the general reader who is interested in science. The author is a physicist who is well-known for his development of the property called "self-organized criticality", a property or phenomenon that lies at the heart of large dynamical systems. It can be used to analyse systems that are complicated, and which are part of the new science of complexity. It is a unifying concept that can be used to study phenomena in fields as diverse as economics, astronomy, the earth sciences, and physics. The author discusses his discovery of self-organized criticality; its relation to the world of classical physics; computer simulations and experiments which aid scientists' understanding of the property; and the relation of the subject to popular areas such as fractal geometry and power laws; cellular automata, and a wide range of practical applications.
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1 Complexity and Criticality.- 2 The Discovery of Self-Organized Criticality.- 3 The Sandpile Paradigm.- 4 Real Sandpiles and Landscape Formation.- 5 Earthquakes, Starquakes, and Solar Flares.- 6 The "Game of Life": Complexity Is Criticality.- 7 Is Life a Self-Organized Critical Phenomenon?.- 8 Mass Extinctions and Punctuated Equilibria in a Simple Model of Evolution.- 9 Theory of the Punctuated Equilibrium Model.- 10 The Brain.- 11 On Economics and Traffic Jams.

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