Physics, Nature and Society A Guide to Order and Complexity in Our World /

• Main Author: Marro, Joaquín (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Artificial intelligence.; Developmental biology.; Game theory.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Popular works.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Popular Science, general.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Developmental Biology.

This wide-ranging and accessible book serves as a fascinating guide to the strategies and concepts that help us understand the boundaries between physics, on the one hand, and sociology, economics, and biology on the other. From cooperation and criticality to flock dynamics and fractals, the author...

Table of Contents:

• A glance at the method
• The automata
• Chaotic and noisy
• Critical worlds
• Chance and necessity
• Size does not always matter
• Living things
• Interacting humans
• Epilogue.