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DISRUPTED NETWORKS - FROM PHY TO ...(V13)

English · Hardback

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This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment, computation and theory (data, information and knowledge) of the twenty-first century in everything from psychophysics to climate change. This book is unique in that it addresses two parallel lines of argument. The first line is general and intended for a lay audience, but one that is scientifically sophisticated, explaining how the paradigm of science has been changed to accommodate the computer and large-scale computation. The second line of argument addresses what some consider the seminal scientific problem of climate change. The authors show how a misunderstanding of the change in the scientific paradigm has led to a misunderstanding of complex phenomena in general, and the causes of global warming in particular.

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Authors Bruce J West & Nicola Scafetta, Nicola Scafetta, Bruce J West, Bruce J. West
Publisher World Scientific
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 19.03.2010
 
EAN 9789814304306
ISBN 978-981-4304-30-6
No. of pages 314
Dimensions 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
Weight 608 g
Series Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Miscellaneous

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