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This text is 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 analyze 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-139780387987385
eBay Product ID (ePID)91671636
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Number of Pages212 Pages
Publication NameHow Nature Works: the Science of Self-Organized Criticality
LanguageEnglish
SubjectChemistry, Geology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics
Publication Year1999
TypeTextbook
AuthorPer Bak
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight380 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorPer Bak