Deep Simplicity
Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
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 systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore, in prose that communicates not only the wonder but the substance of cutting-edge science, the principles behind chaos and complexity. He reveals the remarkable ways these two revolutionary theories have been applied over the last twenty years to explain all sorts of phenomena–from weather patterns to mass extinctions.
CONTENT
1 Order out of Chaos
2 The Return of Chaos
3 Chaos out of Order
4 From Chaos to Complexity
5 Earthquakes, Extinctions, and Emergence
6 The Facts of Life
7 Life Beyond