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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Vintage)
Author: Leonard Mlodinow
ISBN-10: 0307275175
ISBN-13: 9780307275172
Published: 2009-05-05
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Description:
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.
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Chaos: The Making of a New Science
Author: James Gleick
ISBN-10: 0349105251
ISBN-13: 9780349105253
Published: 1988
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporate
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
Author: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
ISBN-10: 0452284392
ISBN-13: 9780452284395
Published: 2003-04-29
Publisher: Plume
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A cocktail party.? A terrorist cell.? Ancient bacteria.? An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. Grasping a full understanding of network science will someday allow us to design blue-chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Just as James Gleick brought the discovery of chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future.
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Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory
Author: Neil Johnson
ISBN-10: 1851686304
ISBN-13: 9781851686308
Published: 2009-10-16
Publisher: Oneworld
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What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common?They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that researchers believe is the key to predicting - and solving-everything from terrorist attacks and pandemic viruses right down to rush hour traffic congestion. Scientists can predict shopping habits, patterns in modern jazz, and the growth of cancer tumors. Considered by many to be the single most important scientific development since general relativity.
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Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity)
Author: Steven H. Strogatz
ISBN-10: 0738204536
ISBN-13: 9780738204536
Published: 2001-01-19
Publisher: Westview Press
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Book Description:
This textbook is aimed at newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos, especially students taking a first course in the subject. The presentation stresses analytical methods, concrete examples and geometric intuition. The theory is developed systematically, starting with first-order differential equations and their bifurcations, followed by phase plane analysis, limit cycles and their bifurcations, and culminating with the Lorenz equations, chaos, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalization, fractals, and strange attractors.A unique feature of the book is its emphasis on applications. These include mechanical vibrations, lasers, biological rhythms, superconducting circuits, insect outbreaks, chemical oscillators, genetic control systems, chaotic waterwheels, and even a technique for using chaos to send secret messages. In each case, the scientific background is explained at an elementary level and closely integrated with the mathematical theory.Richly illustrated, and with many exercises and worked examples, this book is ideal for an introductory course at the junior/senior or first-year graduate level. It is also ideal for the scientist who has not had formal instruction in nonlinear dynamics, but who now desires to begin informal study. The prerequisites are multivariable calculus and introductory physics.
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Systems Thinking, Third Edition: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture
Author: Jamshid Gharajedaghi
ISBN-10: 0123859158
ISBN-13: 9780123859150
Published: 2011-07-13
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
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In a global market economy, a viable business cannot be locked into a single form or function anymore. Rather, success is contingent upon a self-renewing capacity to spontaneously create structures, functions, and processes responsive to a fluctuating business landscape. Now in its third edition, Systems Thinking synthesizes systems theory and interactive design, providing an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. The current edition has been updated to include all new chapters on self-organizing systems, Holistic, Operational, and Design thinking. Gharajedaghi covers recent crises in financial systems and job markets, the housing bubble, and environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking. A companion website to accompany the book is available at www.interactdesign.com. Four NEW chapters on self-organizing systems, holistic thinking, operational thinking, and design thinkingCovers the recent crises in financial systems and job markets globally, the housing bubble, and the environment, assessing their impact on systems thinkingCompanion website to accompany the book is available at interactdesign.com
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Chaos: The Making of a New Science
Author: James Gleick
ISBN-10: 0670811785
ISBN-13: 9780670811786
Published: 1987-10-29
Publisher: Viking Adult
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James Gleick explains the theories behind the fascinating new science called chaos. Alongside relativity and quantum mechanics, it is being hailed as the twentieth century's third revolution. 8 pages of photos.
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Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Lenny Smith
ISBN-10: 0192853783
ISBN-13: 9780192853783
Published: 2007-04-16
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behavior, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Here, Leonard Smith shows that we all have an intuitive understanding of chaotic systems. He uses accessible math and physics to explain Chaos Theory, and points to numerous examples in philosophy and literature that illuminate the problems. This book provides a complete understanding of chaotic dynamics, using examples from mathematics, physics, philosophy, and the real world, with an explanation of why chaos is important and how it differs from the idea of randomness. The author's real life applications include the weather forecast, a pendulum, a coin toss, mass transit, politics, and the role of chaos in gambling and the stock market. Chaos represents a prime opportunity for mathematical lay people to finally get a clear understanding of this fascinating concept.
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The Art of Modeling Dynamic Systems: Forecasting for Chaos, Randomness and Determinism (Dover Books on Computer Science)
Author: Foster Morrison
ISBN-10: 0486462951
ISBN-13: 9780486462950
Published: 2008-01-24
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Book Description:
This text demonstrates the roles of statistical methods, coordinate transformations, and mathematical analysis in mapping complex, unpredictable dynamical systems. Written by a well-known authority in the field, it employs practical examples and analogies, rather than theorems and proofs, to characterize the benefits and limitations of modeling tools. 1991 edition.
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Author: STUART A. KAUFFMAN
ISBN-10: 0140174141
ISBN-13: 9780140174144
Published: 1996
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
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