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The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
by Gary Flake  Publisher Comments In this book Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors. Distinguishing "agents" (e.g., molecules, cells, animals, and species) from their interactions (e.g., chemical reactions...
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Linked : How Everything Is Connected To Everything Else and What It Means (02 Edition)
by Albert Barabasi-laszlo 
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Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
by Leonard Smith Publisher Comments 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...
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Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields
by John Guckenheimer and Philip Holmes Publisher Comments From the reviews: "This book is concerned with the application of methods from dynamical systems and bifurcation theories to the study of nonlinear oscillations. Chapter 1 provides a review of basic results in the theory of dynamical systems, covering...
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Classics on Fractals. (Reprint, 1993).
by Gerald A Edgar Publisher Comments Fractals are an important topic in such varied branches of science as mathematics, computer science, and physics. Classics on Fractals collects for the first time the historic papers on fractal geometry, dealing with such topics as non-differentiable...
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a...
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Complexity from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Coherence and Large Deviations
by Arne T. Skjeltorp Book News Annotation The 16th meeting of the biannual conference on cooperative phenomena and phase transitions addressed the current experimental and theoretical knowledge of the physical organizing principles of a collection of many interacting particles or entities at...
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Chaos & Nonlinear Dynamics 2ND Edition
by Robert Hilborn Publisher Comments This book introduces readers to the full range of current and background activity in the rapidly growing field of nonlinear dynamics. It uses a step-by-step introduction to dynamics and geometry in state space to help in understanding nonlinear dynamics...
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Chaos in Dynamical Systems
by Edward Ott Publisher Comments In the new edition of this classic textbook Ed Ott has added much new material and has significantly increased the number of homework problems. The most important change is the addition of a completely new chapter on control and synchronization of chaos....
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The Nonlinear Universe: Chaos, Emergence, Life (Frontiers Collection)
by Alwyn C. Scott Synopsis Written in Alwyn Scotta (TM)s inimitable style a lucid and accessible a The Nonlinear Universe surveys and explores the explosion of activity in nonlinear science that began in the 1970s and 1980s and continues today. The book explains the wide-ranging...
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Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics #143: Analysis on Fractals
by Jun Kigami Publisher Comments Self-contained introduction to analysis on fractals, a developing area of mathematics, for graduates and researchers....
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Natural Biodynamics
by Vladimir Ivancevic Synopsis This comprehensive volume is a graduate-level text in human biodynamics, written in the unified categorical language of modern differential geometry and topology. Combining mathematics, physics and robotics with human physiology, this is the first book...
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Beyond Coincidence: Amazing Stories of Coincidence and the Mystery Behind Them
by Martin Plimmer Publisher Comments Beyond Coincidence recounts and analyzes more than two hundred amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of: Laura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon from her backyard. It lands 140 miles away in the backyard of another Laura Buxton, also age...
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Computer-Assisted Simulation of Dynamic Systems with Block Diagram Languages
by Nicholas Mark Karayanakis Publisher Comments Computer-Assisted Simulation of Dynamic Systems with Block Diagram Languages explores the diverse applications of these indispensable simulation tools. The first book of its kind, it bridges the gap between block diagram languages and traditional...
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
by John Gribbin Publisher Comments Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex...
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Stable Isotopes and Biosphere - Atmosphere Interactions: Processes and Biological Controls
by L. B. Flanagan Publisher Comments The emerging multidisciplinary field of earth system science sets out to improve our understanding functioning ecosystems, at a global level across the entire planet. Stable Isotopes and Biosphere - Atmosphere Interactions looks to one of its most...
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NATO Asi Series. Series A, Life Sciences #45: Fractals' Physical Origin and Properties
by Luciano Pietronero Synopsis Proceedings of the Special Seminar on Fractals, held October 1988, in Erice, Italy. Most of the contributions are theoretical, but some experimental work is also included. They discuss multifractals and turbulence, fractal properties of critical...
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Fractals, Graphics and Mathematics Education
by Michael Frame Publisher Comments FractalGeometry is a recent edition to the collection of mathematical tools for describing nature, and is the first to focus on roughness. Fractal geometry also appears in art, music and literature, most often without being consciously included by the...
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Explaining Chaos
by Peter Smith Publisher Comments Chaotic dynamics has been hailed as the third great scientific revolution in physics in this century, comparable to relativity and quantum mechanics. In this book, Peter Smith takes a cool, critical look at such claims. He cuts through the hype and...
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The Science of Fractal Images
by Heinz Otto Peitgen Publisher Comments This book is based on notes for the course Fractals: Introduction, Basics and Perspectives given by Michael F. Barnsley, Robert L. Devaney, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Dietmar Saupe and Richard F. Voss. The Course was chaired by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and was part...
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