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Dynamics of Hierarchical Systems: An Evolutionary Approach

Dynamics of Hierarchical Systems: An Evolutionary Approach

Nicolis, John S.

Paperback

Series: Springer Synergetics, Book 25

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ISBN10: 3642696945
ISBN13: 9783642696947
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 13 2011
Pages: 397
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
The main aim of these lectures is to tri gger the interest of the restless under- graduate student of physical, mathematical, engineering, or biological sciences in the new and exciting multidisciplinary area of the evolution of large-scale dynamical systems. This text grew out of a synthesis of rather heterogeneous mate- rial that I presented on various occasions and in different contexts. For example, from lectures given since 1972 to first- and final-year undergraduate and first- year graduate students at the School of Engineering of the University of Patras and from informal seminars offered to an international group of graduate and post- doctoral students and faculty members at the University of Stuttgart in the aca- demic year 1982-1983. Those who search for rigor or even formality in this book are bound to be rather disappointed. My intention is to start from scratch if possible, keeping the rea- soning heuristic and tied as closely as possible to physical intuition; I assume as prerequisites just basic knowledge of (classical) physics (at the level of the Berkeley series or the Feynman lectures), calculus, and some elements of probabil- ity theory. This does not mean that I intended to write an easy book, but rather to eliminate any difficulty for an eager reader who, in spite of incomplete for- malistic training, would like to become acquainted with the physical ideas and con- cepts underlying the evolution and dynamics of complex systems.

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