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At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity

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At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity - Kauffman, Stuart A.
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Complexity theory is one of the most exciting and controversial areas of current scientific research. Developing out of chaos theory, complexity suggests that there are hidden tendencies in nature to select ordered states, even when statistically they are vastly outnumbered by chaotic possibilities: that there is a deep natural impulse towards order, counteracting the degenerative tendencies of the second law of thermodynamics. Like chaos, complexity is a multidisciplinary area of research and those involved include eminent ...

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At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity 1995, Viking, London

ISBN-13: 9780670847358

Hardcover