Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
ISBN: 9780609809983 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Why do catastrophes happen? What sets off earthquakes, for example? What about mass extinctions of species? The outbreak of major wars? Massive traffic jams that seem to appear out of nowhere? Why does the stock market periodically suffer dramatic crashes? Why do some forest fires become superheated infernos that rage totally out of control?
Experts have never been able to explain the causes of any of these disasters. Now scientists have discovered that these seemingly unrelated cataclysms, both natural and human, almost certainly all happen for one fundamental reason. More than that,... Why do catastrophes happen? What sets off earthquakes, for example? What about mass extinctions of species? The outbreak of major wars? Massive traffi...
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Virtual Reality
ISBN: 9780671778972 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Imagine being able to "walk" into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it's science fact. Surgeons now rehearse operations on computer-generated "virtual" patients, and architects "walk through" virtual buildings while the actual structures are still in blueprints. In Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold takes us to the front lines of this revolutionary new technology that creates computer-generated worlds complete with the sensations of touch and motion, and explores its impact on everything from entertainment to particle physics.
Imagine being able to "walk" into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it's science fact. Surge...
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115,17 zł |
Bigger Than Chaos: Understanding Complexity Through Probability
ISBN: 9780674022591 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Many complex systems--from immensely complicated ecosystems to minute assemblages of molecules--surprise us with their simple behavior. Consider, for instance, the snowflake, in which a great number of water molecules arrange themselves in patterns with six-way symmetry. How is it that molecules moving seemingly at random become organized according to the simple, six-fold rule? How do the comings, goings, meetings, and eatings of individual animals add up to the simple dynamics of ecosystem populations? More generally, how does complex and seemingly capricious microbehavior generate... Many complex systems--from immensely complicated ecosystems to minute assemblages of molecules--surprise us with their simple behavior. Consider, f... |
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
ISBN: 9780684868769 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning.... In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The V...
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Theory of Formal Systems. (Am-47), Volume 47
ISBN: 9780691080475 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book serves both as a completely self-contained introduction and as an exposition of new results in the field of recursive function theory and its application to formal systems. This book serves both as a completely self-contained introduction and as an exposition of new results in the field of recursive function theory and... |
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Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
ISBN: 9780691127026 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive explanations, Complex Adaptive Systems focuses on the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s, as well as the techniques needed to investigate such systems. It... This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authori... |
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The Ingenious Mind of Nature: Deciphering the Patterns of Man, Society, and the Universe
ISBN: 9780738205847 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) George Hall - teacher, historian, engineer, and computer analyst - uniquely draws upon the competing perspectives of traditional science, the exciting new science of chaos, and the burgeoning and important tenets of complexity theory, catastrophe theory, and fuzzy logic to look for a common theme. All of these perspectives, he finds, are fundamentally united by a common theme: the crucial patterns of elements and their dynamic change over time. Order - be it the growth of a fetus or the rumbling shift of continents - evolves because these patterns are themselves the blueprint and the...
George Hall - teacher, historian, engineer, and computer analyst - uniquely draws upon the competing perspectives of traditional science, the exciting...
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106,80 zł |
The Quantum Dice
ISBN: 9780750302517 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Real black magic calculus" is how Albert Einstein described quantum mechanics in a letter in 1925. Quantum mechanics is now rather more widely understood by physicists, but still many "outsiders" are unaware of what quantum mechanics is, how it has changed the course of development of physics and how it affects their everyday lives. This book gives a fascinating account of the evolution of the ideas and concepts of quantum theory and modern physics, written by an "insider" but aimed specifically at the general science reader. Many anecdotes from famous past physicists give an insight into...
"Real black magic calculus" is how Albert Einstein described quantum mechanics in a letter in 1925. Quantum mechanics is now rather more widely unders...
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
ISBN: 9780786868445 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth; our hearts depend on the synchronous firing of ten thousand pacemaker cells. While the forces that synchronize the flashing of fireflies may seem to have nothing to do with our heart cells, there is in fact a deep connection. Synchrony is a science in its infancy, and Strogatz is a pioneer in this new frontier in which mathematicians and...
At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies cong...
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
ISBN: 9780786887217 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur Winfree. At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells the story of the dawn of a new science. Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronize themselves, from the electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. He shows that...
The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the ...
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Selforganization: Portrait of a Scientific Revolution
ISBN: 9780792308300 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) may be complex without being able to be replaced by something still more simple. This became evident with the help of computer models of deterministic-recursive systems in which simple mathematical equation systems provide an extremely complex behavior. (2) Irregularity of nature is not treated as an anomaly but becomes the focus of research and thus is declared to be normal. One looks for regularity within irregularity. Non-equilibrium processes are recognized as the source of order and the search for equilibrium is replaced by the search for the dynamics of processes. (3) The classical...
may be complex without being able to be replaced by something still more simple. This became evident with the help of computer models of deterministic...
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Turbulent Motion and the Structure of Chaos: A New Approach to the Statistical Theory of Open Systems
ISBN: 9780792311140 / Angielski / Twarda / 401 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) analyzing the experimental data and constructing math.ematical models of the processes under study, one has to rely rather on the physical intuition than on the strict calculations. Now let us go one step higher and explain the main title of the book. The concepts of "laminary" and "turbulent" motions were first introduced in hydrodynamics. Since the old days these concepts have considerably broadened; now the laminar and the turbulent motions have been discovered and investigated at all levels of description of nonequilibrium processes in the open systems, from kinetics to reaction...
analyzing the experimental data and constructing math.ematical models of the processes under study, one has to rely rather on the physical intuition t...
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Nature, Cognition and System II: Current Systems-Scientific Research on Natural and Cognitive Systems Volume 2: On Complementarity and Beyond
ISBN: 9780792317883 / Angielski / Twarda / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) is both a player and a spectator, is explained here illuminatingly. With regard to logical ambiguities and paradoxes, which may show up in all these topics, he, like Locker, is of the opinion that, philosophically speaking all apory of a lower level have to be accepted an a higher level of thinking. After the above expositions of a more general purport we turn now to two contributions which are particularly focused on Bohr's concept of complementarity. First is the article of Hilgevoord who briefly and non-technically describes a short curriculum vitae of the concept beginning with Planck...
is both a player and a spectator, is explained here illuminatingly. With regard to logical ambiguities and paradoxes, which may show up in all these t...
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Discrete Analysis and Operations Research
ISBN: 9780792338666 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book contains translations of papers from the first volume of the new Russian-language journal published at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Sibe rian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk) since 1994. In 1994 the journal was titled Sibirskil Zhurnal Issledovaniya Operatsil. Since 1995 this journal has the title DiskretnYl Analiz i Issledovanie Operatsil (Discrete Analysis and Operations Research) The aim of this journal is to bring together research papers in different areas of discrete mathematics and computer science. The journal DiskretnYl Analiz i Issledovanie...
This book contains translations of papers from the first volume of the new Russian-language journal published at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics ...
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System Design Automation: Fundamentals, Principles, Methods, Examples
ISBN: 9780792373131 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Design automation of electronic and hybrid systems is a steadily growing field of interest and a permanent challenge for researchers in Electronics, Computer Engineering and Computer Science. System Design Automation presents some recent results in design automation of different types of electronic and mechatronic systems. It deals with various topics of design automation, ranging from high level digital system synthesis, through analogue and heterogeneous system analysis and design, up to system modeling and simulation. Design automation is treated from the aspects of its...
Design automation of electronic and hybrid systems is a steadily growing field of interest and a permanent challenge for researchers in Electronics, C...
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Information Systems Analysis and Modeling: An Informational Macrodynamics Approach
ISBN: 9780792386834 / Angielski / Twarda / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Informational Macrodynamics (IMD) presents the unified information systemic approach with common information language for modeling, analysis and optimization of a variety of interactive processes, such as physical, biological, economical, social, and informational, including human activities.
Comparing it with thermodynamics, which deals with transformation energy and represents a theoretical foundation of physical technology, IMD deals with transformation information, and can be considered a theoretical foundation of Information Computer Technology (ICT). ICT includes but is not... Informational Macrodynamics (IMD) presents the unified information systemic approach with common information language for modeling, analysis and optim...
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Gradient Estimation Via Perturbation Analysis
ISBN: 9780792390954 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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Interfaces in Computer Science and Operations Research: Advances in Metaheuristics, Optimization, and Stochastic Modeling Technologies
ISBN: 9780792398448 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The disciplines of computer science and operations research (OR) have been linked since their origins, each contributing to the dramatic advances of the other. This work explores the connections between these key technologies: how high-performance computing methods have led to advances in OR de ployment, and how OR has contributed to the design and development of ad vanced systems. The collected writings-from researchers and practitioners in Computer Science, Operations Research, Management Science, and Artificial Intelligence-were among those delivered at the Fifth INFORMS Computer Science...
The disciplines of computer science and operations research (OR) have been linked since their origins, each contributing to the dramatic advances of t...
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Observing Complexity : Systems Theory and Postmodernity
ISBN: 9780816632978 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The rubric of systems theory brings together conceptual models and approaches in the sciences and social sciences that study complexity. It attempts to provide a coherent means of describing all systems, whether organic or inorganic, and offers a theory of knowledge that can account for the integration of humans in the social, informational, and ecological systems in which we are enmeshed. An introduction to the major concepts and foremost thinkers of systems theory, this book brings systems theory into interaction with the major figures of postmodern theory. The format is multiplex and open...
The rubric of systems theory brings together conceptual models and approaches in the sciences and social sciences that study complexity. It attempts t...
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310,62 zł |
Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity
ISBN: 9780816632985 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The rubric of systems theory brings together conceptual models and approaches in the sciences and social sciences that study complexity. It attempts to provide a coherent means of describing all systems, whether organic or inorganic, and offers a theory of knowledge that can account for the integration of humans in the social, informational, and ecological systems in which we are enmeshed. An introduction to the major concepts and foremost thinkers of systems theory, this book brings systems theory into interaction with the major figures of postmodern theory. The format is multiplex and open...
The rubric of systems theory brings together conceptual models and approaches in the sciences and social sciences that study complexity. It attempts t...
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108,66 zł |