Modeling Complex Systems
Nino Boccara
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Description for Modeling Complex Systems
Hardback. This book illustrates how models of complex systems are built up and provides indispensable mathematical tools for studying their dynamics. This second edition includes more recent research results and many new and improved worked out examples and exercises. Series: Graduate Texts in Physics. Num Pages: 508 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPFC; PBW; PHS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 33. Weight in Grams: 892.
The essential points of this ?rst chapter are • The de?nition of a complex system • The notion of emergence • The de?nition of a model • The notion of dynamical system This book is about the dynamics of complex systems. Roughly speaking, a system is a collection of interacting elements making up a whole such as, for instance, a mechanical clock. While many systems may be quite complicated, they are not necessarily considered to be complex. Today, most authors agree on the essential properties a system has to possess to be called complex. The ?rst section is devoted to ... Read more
The essential points of this ?rst chapter are • The de?nition of a complex system • The notion of emergence • The de?nition of a model • The notion of dynamical system This book is about the dynamics of complex systems. Roughly speaking, a system is a collection of interacting elements making up a whole such as, for instance, a mechanical clock. While many systems may be quite complicated, they are not necessarily considered to be complex. Today, most authors agree on the essential properties a system has to possess to be called complex. The ?rst section is devoted to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
508
Condition
New
Series
Graduate Texts in Physics
Number of Pages
490
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441965615
SKU
V9781441965615
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About Nino Boccara
Dr. Nino Boccara is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie de la Ville de Paris, and Former Director of Research in Theoretical Physics at the CNRS.
Reviews for Modeling Complex Systems
From the reviews of the second edition: “Boccara’s approach is firmly based on dynamical systems theory, differential equations, and maps, with a very solid mathematical treatment, cast at times in terms of definitions and theorems. … The book is very well suited for graduate or advanced undergraduate studies and comes with a problem and solution section at the end ... Read more