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How Nature Works the science of self-organized criticality

and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical state-where anything can happen within well-defined statistical laws. The aim of the science of self-organi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bak, Per
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Copernicus 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Subjects:
Complex Systems
Chemometrics
Mathematical And Computational Biology
Mathematical Analysis
Computer Simulation
Computer Modelling
Biomathematics
Analysis
System Theory
Mathematical Applications In Chemistry
Earth Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Complexity and Criticality
  • 2 The Discovery of Self-Organized Criticality
  • 3 The Sandpile Paradigm
  • 4 Real Sandpiles and Landscape Formation
  • 5 Earthquakes, Starquakes, and Solar Flares
  • 6 The “Game of Life”: Complexity Is Criticality
  • 7 Is Life a Self-Organized Critical Phenomenon?
  • 8 Mass Extinctions and Punctuated Equilibria in a Simple Model of Evolution
  • 9 Theory of the Punctuated Equilibrium Model
  • 10 The Brain
  • 11 On Economics and Traffic Jams

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