Evolution of Chemical Knowledge

Guillermo Restrepo is a theoretical chemist, historian of science and data scientist, working  at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. He is an expert on the mathematical and computational analysis of large scale chemical data sets and the 2020 recipient of the Gmelin–Beilstein-Denkmünze of the German Chemical Society.Jürgen Jost is a mathematician, interdisciplinary researcher on complex systems and a recipient of the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award of the DFG and of an ERC Advanced Grant. His research spans a wide range of scientific disciplines. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences and is an external member of the Santa Fe Institute.

• Part I Chemical knowledge as a complex dynamical system. Introduction.- Modelling the evolution of chemical knowledge.- Evolution of the constitutive systems of chemical knowledge.- Interactions between systems, their differences and environments.- Part II Data and mathematical and computational formalisms for the analysis of chemical knowledge. Data.- Methods.- Conclusions and outlook.- References.- Index.