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Isabelle Stengers, Ilya Prigogine
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In this intellectually challenging book, Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine tackles some of the difficult questions that bedevil physicists trying to provide an explanation for the world we observe. How is it, for instance, that basic principles of quantum me
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Kenneth R. Beebe
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Explains how to apply the most widely used pattern recognition & multivariate calibration techniques to solve data analysis problems & describes all key methods in terms of processes & applications in order to help the reader easily identify the best tec
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Heinz-Otto Peitgen
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Fascinating and authoritative, Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science is a truly remarkable book that documents recent discoveries in chaos theory with plenty of mathematical detail, but without alienating the general reader. In all, this te
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John H. Holland
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"Emergence" is the notion that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. John Holland, a MacArthur Fellow known as the "father of genetic algorithms," says this seemingly simple notion will be at the heart of the development of mac
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, thi
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M. Mitchell Waldrop
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Science magazine reporter Waldrop introduces researchers--rebellious graduate students, Nobel laureates, and pragmatic businessmen--who are formulating surprising answers to complex questions about the universe. Line drawings.
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J. Throck Watson
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Completely revised and updated in its Third Edition, this text provides an easy-to-read guide to the concept of mass spectrometry and demonstrates its potential and limitations. Utilizing real life examples of analyses and applications, the book presents
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William Schroeder
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This Java-built "Visualization Toolkit (VTK)" will enable readers to represent any set of data--medical, scientific, or financial--in 3D. Users will learn to build 3D Java applets with the VTK software on the CD-ROM. The book covers Web applications like
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Duncan J. Watts(Preface)
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"This is a remarkably novel analysis, with implications for a broad range of scientific disciplines, including neurobiology, sociology, ecology, economics, and epidemiology. . . . The results are potentially profoundly important."--Simon A. Levin, Depart
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John Briggs
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The concept of chaos is one of today's most exciting scientific breakthroughs, with far-reaching implications for thermodynamics, our concept of time, and the way we perceive the universe. Turbulent Mirror offers a perfect introduction to this bizarre an
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Thomas A. Bass
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Using a computer to beat Wall Street from afar is, arguably, the new American dream. While it will remain just that for most of us, an offbeat gang of academics turned financial wizards is showing it can be done. Led by acclaimed physicists Doyne Farmer
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Jamshid Gharajedaghi
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This book is a direct result of the author's work with the systems methodology first introduced by the author's partner, Russell Ackoff. It's a holistic approach to systems methodology. It deals with all dimensions of a system: structure, function and pr
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James Gleick
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Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, resides in this exclusive category. In Chaos, he takes
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Peter Coveney, Roger Highfield
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Accessible yet rigorous, this book goes far beyond most popularizations of "chaos" theory and presents the science of complexity, its historical origins, and current applications to cosmology, particle physics, ecology, evolution, and neurobiol
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Does God Play Dice?: The Mathematics of Chaos Ian Stewart
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Mathematicians and scientists have now discovered that systems obeying precise laws can behave in a random fashion. And perhaps God can play dice, and create a universe of complete law and order, in the same breath. This new science, the mathematics of c
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Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction Gregory L. Baker, Jerry P. Gollub
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Widely praised for its clarity and style, the previous edition of this text was the first to provide a quantitative introduction to chaos and nonlinear dynamics at the undergraduate level. This edition includes additional material on the analysis and cha
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Exploring Chaos: Theory and Experiment Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Evolutionary Economics and Chaos Theory: New Directions in Technology Studies Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Chaos Theory in the Financial Markets: Applying Fractals, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Swarn Simulation & the Monte Carlo Method to Manage Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Chaotic and Fractal Dynamics: An Introduction for Applied Scientists and Engineers Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Chaos Under Control: The Art and Science of Complexity Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Chaos Near Resonance Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Chaos for Engineers: Theory, Applications, and Control Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Chaos Theory
(1961) Sensitive dependence on initial conditions: To obtain random results from normal equations and the reverse, order emerging from apparently random data. Related memes: Complexity, Butterfly Effect, Nonlinearity