Disrupted networks : from physics to climate change / Bruce J. West & Nicola Scafetta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Bruce J.

Scafetta, Nicola., Author.

Series:

Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ; v. 13.

Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

System analysis.

Science--Data processing.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based

Contents:

Preface; Contents; 1 Why a Science of Networks?; 2 Data; 3 Information; 4 Knowledge; 5 A World of Disrupted Networks; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index.

ISBN:

9786612763731

9781282763739

1282763733

9789814304313

981430431X

OCLC:

681543263