Foundations of Complex-System Theories

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by Sunny A. Auyang

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published March 1998, 408 pages, cloth

ISBN 0521621674

Foundations of Complex-system Theories analyzes and compares, for the first time, the key ideas and general methods used in studying complexity in the physical, biological, and social sciences. It highlights the features common to the three areas, clarifies conceptual confusions, and provides a nontechnical introduction to the way we understand and deal with complexity. This detailed yet nontechnical book will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about complex systems. It will also be of great interest to philosophers engaged in scientific methodology and specialists studying complexity in the physical, biological, and social sciences.