Complexity in Chemistry, Biology, and Ecology

This book, written by an international team of experts, introduces the reader to various aspects of complexity theory and its applications. It illustrates the latest trends in science to go beyond the mechanistic Newtonian view of the world by shifting the focus to self-organization, adaptation, and...

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Other Authors: Bonchev, Danail D. (Editor), Rouvray, Dennis (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2005, 2005
Edition:1st ed. 2005
Series:Mathematical and Computational Chemistry
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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520 |a This book, written by an international team of experts, introduces the reader to various aspects of complexity theory and its applications. It illustrates the latest trends in science to go beyond the mechanistic Newtonian view of the world by shifting the focus to self-organization, adaptation, and emergent phenomena. The authors discuss these properties of complex systems in biology, ecology and chemistry along with the structure and interconnectedness of the "layers" of complexity. The qualitative description is complemented by a discussion of methods for complexity quantification. Networks are covered in detail as a universal language of the complex world. General readers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in life sciences, chemistry, and nanotechnology will find this book to be of great interest