Swings of Science

From Complexity to Simplicity and Back

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book is a personal account of some aspects of the emergence of modern science, mostly from the viewpoint of those branches of physics which provided the much needed paradigm shift of "more is different" that heralded the advent of complexity science as an antidote to the purely reductionist approach in fundamental physics.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-12-19
Mått155 x 235 x 12 mm
Vikt312 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor190
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319997766

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Len Pismen is professor emeritus at Israel Institute of Technology where he held the Julius M. and Bernice Naiman Chair in Fluid Mechanics.He has published two monographs - Vortices in Nonlinear Fields: From liquid crystals to superfluids, From non-equilibrium patterns to cosmic strings (Oxford University Press, 1999), Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics (Springer, 2006) - and is member of the editorial board of The European Physical Journal Special Topics .