Frontiers of complexity
Subtitle: the search for order in a chaotic world
By: Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield ; foreword by Baruch Blumberg.
Contributors: Highfield, Roger.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems.; Complexity (Philosophy); Reductionism.
Description: In this groundbreaking new book, Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield, the scientist coauthors of the highly praised The Arrow of Time, explore how complexity in mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, and even the social sciences is transforming not only the way we think about the universe, but also the very assumptions that underlie conventional science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-444) and index.