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and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. xu How Nature Works Since we first proposed the idea in 1987, more than 2,ooo papers have been written on self-organized criticality, making ours the most cited paper in physics during that period.
How Nature Works
the science of self-organized criticality
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Summary
This text is intended for the general reader who is interested in science. The author is a physicist who is well known for his development of the property called “self organized criticality”, a property or phenomenon that lies at the heart of large dynamical systems. It can be used to analyze systems that are complicated, and which are part of the new science of complexity. It is a unifying concept that can be used to study phenomena in fields as diverse as economics, astronomy, the earth sci…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780387987385 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 038798738X |
| Series: | Copernicus |
| Author: | Per Bak |
| Publisher: | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Imprint: | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 212 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 23 April 1999 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm |
About The Author
Per Bak
Bak is Professor in the Physics Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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