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  title info:
    title: Thinking in complexity
    sub title: the complex dynamics of matter, mind, and mankind
  name:
    name part: Mainzer, Klaus.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: The theory of nonlinear complex systems has become a successful and widely used problem-solving approach in the natural sciences - from laser physics, quantum chaos and meteorology to molecular modeling in chemistry and computer simulations of cell growth in biology. In recent times it has been recognized that many of the social, ecological and political problems of mankind are also of a global, complex and nonlinear nature. And one of the most exciting topics of present scientific and public interest is the idea that even the human mind is governed largely by the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems. In this wide-ranging but concise treatment Prof. Mainzer discusses, in nontechnical language, the common framework behind these endeavours. Special emphasis is given to the evolution of new structures in natural and cultural systems and it is seen clearly how the new integrative approach of complexity theory can give new insights that were not available using traditional reductionistic methods.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: From Linear to Nonlinear Thinking -- 2. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Matter. 2.1. Aristotle's Cosmos and the Logos of Heraclitus. 2.2. Newton's and Einstein's Universe and the Demon of Laplace. 2.3. Hamilton Systems and the Chaos of Heaven and the Quantum World. 2.4. Dissipative Systems and the Emergence of Order -- 3. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Life. 3.1. From Thales to Darwin. 3.2. Boltzmann's Thermodynamics and the Evolution of Life. 3.3. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Organisms. 3.4. Complex Systems and the Ecology of Populations -- 4. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Mind-Brain. 4.1. From Plato's Soul to Lamettrie's 'L'Homme machine'. 4.2. Complex Systems and Neural Networks. 4.3. Brain and the Emergence of Consciousness. 4.4. Intentionality and the Crocodile in the Brain -- 5. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence. 5.1. Leibniz and the Mathesis Universalis.
  note: Klaus Mainzer.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Complexity (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Nonlinear theories
  subject:
    topic: Ciencia
    topic: Historia
  subject:
    topic: Ciencias sociales
  subject:
    topic: Computación
  subject:
    topic: Complejidad (Filosofía)
  subject:
    topic: Teorías no lineales
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Philosophie
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Sciences sociales
  subject:
    topic: Informatique
  subject:
    topic: Complexité (philosophie)
  subject:
    topic: Théories non linéaires
  subject:
    topic: Denken
  subject:
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Komplexes System
  subject:
    topic: Nichtlineares System
  subject:
    topic: Theorie
  subject:
    topic: Complexity (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Nonlinear theories
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  classification: Q175 .M257 1994
  classification: 501
  classification: 30.02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Thinking in complexity
    name:
      name part: Mainzer, Klaus.
    origin info:
      publisher: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1994
    identifier: (DLC) 94020067
    identifier: (OCoLC)30474671
  identifier: 9783662030141 (electronic bk.)
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      language term: eng