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Since the second edition sold out again in less than one year,
we now present the revised edition of Mainzer's popular book. The theory of nonlinear
complex systems has become a successful problem-solving approach in the natural
sciences from laser physics, quantum chaos, and meteorology to computer simulations
of cell growth in biology. It is now recognized that many of our social, economic,
ecological, and political problems are also of a global, complex, and nonlinear
nature. And one of the most exciting contemporary topics is the idea that even
the human mind is governed largely by the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems.
Professor Mainzer, president of the German Society of Complex Systems and Nonlinear
Dynamics, discusses, in a nontechnical language, the common framework behind these
endeavors. The extended edition also analyzes the new applications of complex
systems to materials science, nanotechnology, and artificial life. |
