An Introduction to Complex Systems Society, Ecology, and Nonlinear Dynamics, 2nd Edition [#300058]

An Introduction to Complex Systems: Society, Ecology, and Nonlinear Dynamics, 2nd Edition
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030631672 | 465 Pages | PDF EPUB | 94 MB
Complex Systems lie at the heart of a variety of large-scale phenomena of great significance - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty, pandemics - and this text uses these case studies as motivations and contexts to explore complex systems and related topics of nonlinear dynamics and power-law statistics. Although detailed mathematical descriptions of these topics can be challenging, the consequences of a system being nonlinear, power-law, or complex are in fact quite accessible. This book blends a tutorial approach to the mathematical aspects of complex systems together with a complementary narrative on the global/ecological/societal implications of such systems.