SYNC

Informationen zum Autor Steven Strogatz is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University and one of the world's leading researchers into chaos, complexity and synchronization. His seminal reasearch has been featured in Nature, Science, Scientific American, The New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Daily Telegraph . Klappentext 'SYNC' IS A STORY OF A DAZZLING KIND OF ORDER IN THE UNIVERSE, THE HARMONY THAT COMES FROM CYCLES IN SYNC. THE TENDENCY TO SYCHRONIZE IS ONE OF THE MOST FAR- REACHING DRIVES IN ALL OF NATURE. IT EXTENDS FROM PEOPLE TO PLANETS, FROM ANIMALS TO ATOMS. IN 'SYNC' PROFESSOR STEVEN STROGATZ CONSIDERS A RANGE OF APPLICATIONS - HUMAN SLEEP AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS, MENSTRUAL SYNCHRONY, INSECT OUTBREAKS, SUPERCONDUCTORS, LASERS, SECRET CODES, HEART ARRHYTHMIAS AND FADS - CONNECTING ALL TRHOUGH AN EXPLORATION OF THE SAME MATHEMATICAL THEME: SELF- ORGANISATION, OR THE SPONTANEOUS EMERGENCE OF ORDER OUT OF CHAOS. FOCUSED ENOUGH TO PRESENT A COHERENT WORLD UNTO THEMSELVES, STROGATZ'S CHOSEN TOPICS TOUCH ON SEVERAL OF THE HOTTEST DIRECTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE. Zusammenfassung Presents the story of order in the universe, the harmony that comes from cycles in sync. This book considers a range of applications - human sleep and circadian rhythms, menstrual synchrony, insect outbreaks, superconductors, Lasers, secret codes, heart arrhythmias and fads.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Steven Strogatz, Steven H. Strogatz, Strogatz Steven
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 29.04.2004
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9780141007632
• ISBN: 978-0-14-100763-2
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 2 cm
• Serie: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Categorie: Kosmos, Chaos, Chaosforschung, Synchronizität, David Hockney, Big Data, Technology, Roger Penrose, Don Quixote, Alan Turing, COMPUTERS / Cybernetics, Yuval Noah Harari, Matt Ridley, Tech, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Alex Bellos, Animal Farm, Big Business, Cybernetics and systems theory, black hole, weather forecasting, technology books, a brief history of time, lord of the flies, A Level maths, popular science books, being mortal, thinking fast and slow, life 3.0, prisoners of geography, 11 plus books, collins easy learning, bounce matthew syed, the undoing project, sapiens a brief history of humankind, book by tim peake, the penguin lessons, bond 11, 11 plus papers