Emergent Nature: Patterns, Growth and Scaling in the Sciences
β Scribed by Miroslav M. Novak
- Publisher
- World Scientific Publishing Company
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 458
- Edition
- 1st
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This book, based on presentations made at the international conference Fractals 2002, is of interest to everyone in the general field of nonlinear dynamics. The abundance of papers from numerous disciplines makes it exciting reading and provides a unifying thread through the topics, such as ray tracing, structure of peptides, modeling fractal surfaces, cancer growth, macaque monkey cortical neurons, occurrence of earthquakes, and patterns of the World Wide Web.
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The dynamics of complex systems can clarify the creation of structures in Nature. This creation is driven by the collective interaction of constitutive elements of the system. Such interactions are frequently nonlinear and are directly responsible for the lack of prediction in the evolution process.
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