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Chance and chaos
How do scientists look at chance, or randomness, and chaos in physical systems? In answering this question for a general audience, Ruelle writes in the best French tradition: he has produced an authoritative and elegant book--a model of clarity, succinctness, and a humor bordering at times on the...
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Emergence as harmony
Drawing on game theory, statistical mechanics, and dynamical systems, Venkat Venkatasubramanian develops a unified theory of emergence, which yields fresh answers to fundamental questions ranging from income inequality to the workings of neural networks in large language models.
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Notes on complexity
2024 Nautilus Book Award Winner * The Marginalian Favorite Books of 2023An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave, that explains the interconnectedness of all things.Nothing in the universe is more complex than life. Throughout the skies, in ocea...
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The ecosystem approach
Is sustainable development a workable solution for today's environmental problems? Is it scientifically defensible? Best known for applying ecological theory to the engineering problems of everyday life, the late scholar James J. Kay was a leader in the study of social and ecological complexity a...
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