Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Casti, J. L.

Complexification : explaining a paradoxical world through the science of surprise John L. Casti - 1st HarperPerennial ed. - New York, NY HarperPerennial 1995, c1994 - xiv, 320 p. ill. ; 21 cm.

Preface
One: The simple and the complex
Two: The catastrophic
Three: The Chaotic
Four: The Lawless
Five: The Irreducible
Six: The Emergent
Seven: The Simply complex
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Index

Arguing that a complexity that defies human logic is only natural, and unlike anything in the range of complexity books, this book shows directly how complexity arises, and how it works. "Complexification" is a primer, in a sense, for life's most complicated processes.

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Chaotic behavior in systems.
Paradox.

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